heo

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

Irish

Noun

heo

1. 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)

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

See also

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.

References

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

Etymology 2

Pronoun

heo

1. Alternative form of he (“he”)

Etymology 3

Pronoun

heo

1. 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)

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.

Declension

Old English personal pronouns

			nominative	accusative	dative	genitive
singular	first person		iċ	mē, mec	mē	mīn
	second person		þū	þē, þec	þē	þīn
	third person	neuter	hit		him	his
		masculine	hē	hine
		feminine	hēo	hīe	hire
dual	first person		wit	unc, uncit	unc	uncer
	second person		ġit	inc, incit	inc	incer
plural	first person		wē	ūs, ūsiċ	ūs	ūre, ūser
	second person		ġē	ēow, ēowiċ	ēow	ēower
	third person		hīe		him	heora

Descendants

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

Sikaiana

Noun

heo

1. coral stone

Vietnamese

Heo

Pronunciation

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

Noun

(classifier con) heo • (㺧)

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

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• cá heo
• heo mọi
• heo nái
• heo quay
• heo rừng
• thịt heo
• thịt heo kho

Noun

heo

1. (card games) a two

See also

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