heo

See also: Heo, HEO, héo, and hèo

Irish

Noun

heo

h-prothesized form of eo

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English hēo, hīe. Probably a doublet of sche; see that entry for more.

Alternative forms

he, hie, hi, hye, hy, hoe, ho, hue, hu, hw, ȝeo, ȝe, ȝhe, ȝoe, ȝo, ȝho, yhe, yo, yio, ge, ghe, ha, a

Pronoun

heo (accusative his, heo, genitive hire, possessive determiner hires)

Third-person singular feminine nominative pronoun: she
Third-person singular feminine accusative pronoun: her
It; used also of inanimate objects

			nominative	accusative	dative	genitive	possessive
singular	1st-person		I, ich, ik	me		min mi¹	min
	2nd-person		þou	þe		þin þi¹	þin
	3rd-person	m	he	him hine²	him	his	his hisen
		f	sche, heo	hire heo	hire		hire hires, hiren
		n	hit		hit him²	his, hit	—
dual³	1st-person		wit	unk		unker
dual³	2nd-person		ȝit	inc		inker
plural	1st-person		we	us, ous		oure	oure oures, ouren
	2nd-person⁴		ye	yow		your	your youres, youren
	3rd-person	inh.	he	hem he²	hem	here	here heres, heren
	3rd-person	bor.	þei	þem, þeim		þeir	þeir þeires, þeiren

¹Used preconsonantally or before h.
²Early or dialectal.
³Dual pronouns are only sporadically found in Early Middle English; after that, they are replaced by plural forms. There are no third-person dual forms in Middle English.
⁴Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

References

“he, pron.(2).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 June 2018.

Etymology 2

Pronoun

heo

Alternative form of he (“he”)

Etymology 3

Pronoun

heo

Alternative form of he (“they”)

Old English

Alternative forms

hæo — Anglian
hiu, hia, hīo

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *hiju, from Proto-Germanic *hijō f (“this, this one”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /xe͜oː/, [he͜oː]

Pronoun

hēo f (accusative hīe, genitive hire, dative hire)

she
- c. 990, Wessex Gospels, John 20:15
  Hēo wēnde þæt hit sē wyrtweard wǣre.
  She thought it was the gardener.
- c. 996, Ælfric's Lives of Saints
  Þā hēo þis ġehīerde, þā smearcode hēo wiþ his weardes.
  When she heard this, she smiled in his direction.
it (when the thing being referred to is feminine)
- early 8th century, Beowulf, line 455
  Gǣþ ā wyrd swā hēo sċeal.
  Fate goes always as it must.
- c. 992, Ælfric, "St. Benedict, Abbot"
  Sē Dēofol wearp ānne stān tō þǣre bellan þæt hēo eall tōsprang.
  The Devil threw a rock at the bell so it broke into pieces.
- The Dialogues of Solomon and Saturn
  Sēo sunne biþ swā rēad on ǣfen for þon þe hēo lōcaþ ufan on helle.
  The sun is so red in the evening because it looks down on hell.

Descendants

Middle English: ȝho, hyo, hye, scho, hoo, sche
- English: she (dialectal hoo, shoo)
- Scots: she, sho

Sikaiana

Noun

heo

coral stone

Vietnamese

See also: héo, hèo, hẻo, and hẹo

Heo

Pronunciation

(Hà Nội) IPA^(key): [hɛw˧˧]
(Huế) IPA^(key): [hɛw˧˧]
(Saigon) IPA^(key): [hɛw˧˧]

Noun

(classifier con) heo • (㺧)

(Central Vietnam, Southern Vietnam) a pig (mammal of genus Sus)

Synonyms

(pig): lợn (northern Vietnam); cúi (archaic)

Derived terms

Noun

heo

(card games) a two

Playing cards in Vietnamese · bài tây (layout · text)

át, xì	heo, hai	ba	bốn	năm	sáu	bảy

tám	chín	mười	bồi	đầm	già	phăng teo