See also: Heo, HEO, héo, hèo, hẻo, and hẹo

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Noun

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heo

  1. h-prothesized form of eo

Middle English

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Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

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Pronoun

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

  1. Third-person singular feminine nominative pronoun: she
  2. Third-person singular feminine accusative pronoun: her
  3. It; used also of inanimate objects
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Middle English personal pronouns
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
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
bor. þei þem, þeim þeir þeir
þeires, þeiren
1 Used preconsonantally or before h.
2 Early or dialectal.
3 Dual 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.
4 Sometimes used as a formal 2nd person singular.
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Etymology 2

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Pronoun

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heo

  1. Alternative form of he (he)

Etymology 3

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Pronoun

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heo

  1. Alternative form of he (they)

Old English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /xe͜oː/, [he͜oː]

Pronoun

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

  1. 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.
  2. it (when the thing being referred to is grammatically 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.

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Descendants

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  • Middle English: ȝho, hyo, hye, scho, hoo, sche

Sikaiana

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Noun

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heo

  1. coral stone

Vietnamese

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Heo

Etymology

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This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.
Particularly: “Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese (SV: hào) "porcupine (obsolete)" > "pig"?”

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Noun

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(classifier con) heo ()

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

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

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Noun

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heo

  1. (card games) a two

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Playing cards in Vietnamese · bài tây (layout · text)
             
át, heo, hai ba bốn năm sáu bảy
             
tám chín mười J, bồi Q, đầm K, già phăng teo