his
Middle English
/his/, /iz/, /his/, /iz/
determiner
Definitions
- Third-person singular masculine genitive determiner: his, of him.
- Third-person singular neuter genitive determiner: its, of it.
- Used in place of the possessive suffix m
Etymology
Inherited from Old English his (its, his) inherited from Proto-Germanic *hes (of this), *hiz (this, this one) derived from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe- (here, demonstrative particle).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*ḱe-
Gloss
here, demonstrative particle
Concept
Semantic Field
Miscellaneous function words
Ontological Category
Other
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- here English
- his English
- hisself English
- ceterus Latin
- *só Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱe Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱe- Proto-Indo-European
- *hes Proto-Germanic
- *hijō Proto-Germanic
- *hit Proto-Germanic
- *hiu dagō Proto-Germanic
- *hiz Proto-Germanic
- *sa Proto-Germanic
- he Old English
- his Old English
- hē Old English
- hyse Middle English
- isse Middle English
- hēr Old High German
- hie Old Dutch
- hīe Old Dutch
- he Old Saxon
- hē Old Saxon
- imu Old Saxon
- ina Old Saxon
- ira Old Saxon
- ire Old Saxon
- iro Old Saxon
- iru Old Saxon
- siu Old Saxon
- *keiwe Proto-Italic
- hi Old Frisian
- hiōda Old Frisian
- hī Old Frisian