See also: -'sche, -sche, sch***e, and sch****e

Middle English edit

Alternative forms edit

Etymology edit

Most likely from Old English hēo, hīo (she), from Proto-West Germanic *hiju, from Proto-Germanic *hijō f (this, this one), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (this, here), but see she for more. Compare heo.

Pronunciation edit

Pronoun edit

sche (accusative hire, genitive hire, possessive determiner hires, hiren)

  1. Third-person singular feminine pronoun: she
  2. It; used also of inanimate objects

Usage notes edit

In addition to referring to female humans and animals, this pronoun was used for inanimate objects belonging to the feminine grammatical gender early in Middle English. As grammatical gender obsolesced, this pronoun continued to refer to inanimate objects.

Descendants edit

  • English: she
  • Scots: scho, shu
  • Yola: shoo, shea, shu

See also edit

References edit

Romansch edit

Etymology edit

From Latin .

Conjunction edit

sche

  1. if