han

Swedish

/hanː/

pronoun

Definitions

he, the third person singular, masculine, nominative case.
(informal) him

Etymology

Inherited from Old Swedish han inherited from Old Norse hann inherited from Proto-Norse *hānaʀ.

Origin

Proto-Norse

*hānaʀ

Gloss

Timeline

Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

ham Norwegian Bokmål
han Norwegian Bokmål
*jainaz Proto-Germanic
han Norwegian Nynorsk
hann Old Norse
hánn Old Norse
han Danish
hann Icelandic
hann Faroese
han Old Swedish
han Old Danish
an Elfdalian
*hānaʀ Proto-Norse