her
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her
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Etymology edit
From Middle English here, hir, hire, from Old English hire (“her”), from Proto-Germanic *hezōi (dative and genitive singular of *hijō). Cognate with North Frisian hör, Saterland Frisian hier, hiere (“her”), West Frisian har (“her”), Dutch haar (“her”), German Low German hör (“her”), German ihr (“her”).
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈhɜː(ɹ)/, unstressed IPA(key): /ə(ɹ)/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈhɝ/, unstressed IPA(key): /ɚ/
Audio (US) (file) - Homophone: a (non-rhotic, unstressed)
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)
Determiner edit
her
- Belonging to her (belonging to that female, or in poetic or old-fashioned language that ship, city, season, etc).
- This is her book
- 1928, The Journal of the American Dental Association, page 765:
- Prodigal in everything, summer spreads her blessings with lavish unconcern, and waving her magic wand across the landscape of the world, she bids the sons of men to enter in [...]
- 1932, Delos W. Lovelace, King Kong, published 1965, page 1:
- Her crew knew that deep in her heart beat engines fit and able to push her blunt old nose ahead at a sweet fourteen knots, come Hell or high water.
- 2001, Betsy Gould Hearne, Wishes, Kisses, and Pigs, Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 78:
- On top of the circle she wrote her name, Louise, just above where the 12 on a clock would be.
- 2010, Andrew Lambert, Nelson: Britannia's God of War, Faber & Faber, →ISBN:
- On 24 April Nelson rejoined his ship, her battle damage repaired […]
- Belonging to a person of unspecified gender (to counterbalance the traditional "his" in this sense).
- 2017, David Yellin, Essentials of Integrating the Language Arts, page 115:
- Begin by having students choose a short poem to memorize; they will enjoy searching the library for a poem that appeals to them. If a student wishes to memorize her poem and share it aloud with the rest of the class, suggest a buddy system.
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her
- The form of she used after a preposition, as the object of a verb, or (colloquial) as a subject with a conjunction; that woman, that ship, etc.
- Give it to her (after preposition)
- He wrote her a letter (indirect object)
- He treated her for a cold (direct object)
- Him and her went for a walk (with a conjunction; deprecated)
- February 1896, Ground-swells, by Jeannette H. Walworth, published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine; page 183:
- "Then what became of her?"
- "Her? Which ‘her’? The park is full of ‘hers’."
- "The lady with the green feathers in her hat. A big Gainsborough hat. I am quite sure it was Miss Hartuff."
- 1950, C. S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe:
- "It's all right," he was shouting. "Come out, Mrs. Beaver. Come out, Sons and Daughters of Adam and Eve. It's all right! It isn't her!" This was bad grammar of course, but that is how beavers talk when they are excited; I mean, in Narnia—in our world they usually don't talk at all.
- 2013, James Tully, The Crimes of Charlotte Brontë:
- Every day I had to watch as him and her went off for long walks together, and each night I had to go to my lonely, cold bed with the thought that they were sharing the same one […]
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Noun edit
her (plural hers)
- (informal) A female person or animal.
- I think this bird is a him, but it may be a her.
- 1986, Hélène Cixous, Sorties (translated)
- […] daring dizzying passages in other, fleeting and passionate dwellings within the hims and hers whom she inhabits […]
- 2004, Charles J. Sullivan, Love and Survival, page 68:
- By this time, she had so many questions, but she only hit him up for one answer about those “hims” and “hers.” She asked, “Do both hims and hers reproduce hummers?”
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Aromanian edit
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Etymology edit
From Latin ferrum. Compare Daco-Romanian fier, Spanish hierro.
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her
- Mixed mutation of ger.
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her f
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her
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her
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- Not in common usage, "hier" is rather used. "her" is only used in expressions like the ones below.
Derived terms edit
- her en der (“here and there, hither and thither (which is the older meaning https://www.dbnl.org/tekst/_taa014200901_01/_taa014200901_01_0229.php”), her en der verspreid (“scattered all over the place”)
- van hot naar her (“from pillar to post, here, there and everywhere”)
Faroese edit
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her
Etymology 2 edit
From herur.
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her
German edit
Etymology edit
From Old High German hera. Cognate to German Low German her.
Pronunciation edit
- IPA(key): /heːr/, [heːɐ̯], [hɛɐ̯]
Audio (file) - Homophones: Heer, hehr
- Homophone: Herr (common merger)
- Rhymes: -eːɐ̯
Adverb edit
her
- hither, to this place, to here, to me/us
- Komm her!
- Come here!
- ago
- Es ist zehn Jahre her, dass ich das letzte Mal Auto gefahren bin.
- Ten years ago was the last time I drove a car.
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Gothic edit
Romanization edit
hēr
- Romanization of 𐌷𐌴𐍂
Icelandic edit
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her m (genitive singular hers, nominative plural herir)
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Limburgish edit
Etymology edit
From hieër.
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her m
Middle English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Inherited from Old English hǣr, from Proto-West Germanic *hār, from Proto-Germanic *hērą.
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her (plural heres)
- (countable) a hair (follicular growth on the skin)
- c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)[1], published c. 1410, Apocalips 1:14, page 117v; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:
- ⁊ þe heed of him ⁊ his heeris weren whiyt as whiyt wolle .· ⁊ as ſnow / ⁊ þe iȝen of him as flawme of fier .·
- And his head and his hairs were white, like white wool or snow, and his eyes were like fire's flame.
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Wyfe of Bathes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:
- Tho rad he me how sāpson lost his heeres
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- (uncountable) hair (follicular growths on the skin)
- a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Knight's Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, lines 3690–3691:
- But first he cheweth greyn and lycorys / To smellen sweete, er he hadde kembd his heer.
- Though first he chews spices and licorice, / To smell sweet before he'd combed his hair.
- pelt, hide, animal skin
- Something similar in appearance to hair (e.g. a botanical hair)
- (figurative) small part, any part (of a person)
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Descendants edit
References edit
- “hēr, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-16.
Etymology 2 edit
Inherited from Old English hēr, from Proto-West Germanic *hēr, from Proto-Germanic *hē₂r.
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her
Descendants edit
References edit
- “hẹ̄r, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Etymology 3 edit
Determiner edit
her
- Alternative form of hire (“her”, genitive)
Pronoun edit
her
- Alternative form of hire (“hers”)
Etymology 4 edit
Pronoun edit
her
- Alternative form of hire (“her”, object)
Etymology 5 edit
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her
- Alternative form of here (“their”)
Etymology 6 edit
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her
- Alternative form of here (“pleasant”)
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Noun edit
her (plural heres)
- Alternative form of here (“haircloth”)
Etymology 8 edit
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her
- Alternative form of herre (“hinge”)
Etymology 9 edit
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her
- Alternative form of here (“army”)
Etymology 10 edit
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her (plural heres)
- Alternative form of heir (“heir”)
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her
- Alternative form of heren (“to hear”)
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her
- comparative degree of he (“high”)
North Frisian edit
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her
Northern Kurdish edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Indo-Iranian *sárwas.
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Central Kurdish | هەر (her) |
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her
Norwegian Bokmål edit
Etymology edit
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her
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “her” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
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her
- here
- Det er fint å vera her.
- It's nice to be here.
- just now, recently
- Eg såg ho her ein dag.
- I saw her just the other day.
Etymology 2 edit
Noun edit
her m (definite singular heren, indefinite plural herar, definite plural herane)
References edit
- “her” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
Old English edit
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Etymology 1 edit
From Proto-West Germanic *hēr, from Proto-Germanic *hē₂r, apparently from the stem *hi- (“this”); the exact formation is unclear. Cognate with Old Saxon hēr, Old High German hiar, Old Norse hér, Gothic 𐌷𐌴𐍂 (hēr).
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hēr
- here
- late 10th century, Ælfric, the Old English Hexateuch, Genesis 46:2
- God hine ġehīerde and cleopode hine and cwæþ tō him, "Iācōb, Iācōb"! And hē him andswarode and cwæþ, "Hēr iċ eom!"
- God heard him and called out, "Jacob, Jacob!" And he answered him and said, "Here I am!"
- late 10th century, Ælfric, the Old English Hexateuch, Genesis 46:2
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hēr n
- Alternative form of hǣr
Old Frisian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-West Germanic *hār. Cognates include Old English hǣr, Old Saxon hār and Old Dutch hār.
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hēr n
Descendants edit
References edit
- Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, →ISBN
Old High German edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Proto-Germanic *hairaz.
Adjective edit
hēr (comparative hērro or hērōro)
Declension edit
Singular | masculine | feminine | neuter |
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nominative | hērēr, her | hēriu, her | hēraz, her |
accusative | hēran | hēra | hēraz |
genitive | hēres | hērera | hēres |
dative | hēremu | hēreru | hēremu |
instrumental | hēru | — | hēru |
Plural | masculine | feminine | neuter |
nominative | hēre, her | hēro, her | hēriu, her |
accusative | hēre | hēro | hēriu |
genitive | hērero | hērero | hērero |
dative | hērēm | hērēm | hērēm |
Singular | masculine | feminine | neuter |
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nominative | hēro | hēra | hēra |
accusative | hēron | hērūn | hēra |
genitive | hēren | hērūn | hēren |
dative | hēren | hērūn | hēren |
Plural | masculine | feminine | neuter |
nominative | hēron | hērūn | hēron |
accusative | hēron | hērūn | hēron |
genitive | hērōno | hērōno | hērōno |
dative | hērōm | hērōm | hērōm |
Singular | masculine | feminine | neuter |
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nominative | hērōro | hērōra | hērōra |
accusative | hērōron | hērōrūn | hērōra |
genitive | hērōren | hērōrūn | hērōren |
dative | hērōren | hērōrūn | hērōren |
Plural | masculine | feminine | neuter |
nominative | hērōron | hērōrūn | hērōron |
accusative | hērōron | hērōrūn | hērōron |
genitive | hērōrōno | hērōrōno | hērōrōno |
dative | hērōrōm | hērōrōm | hērōrōm |
Singular | masculine | feminine | neuter |
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nominative | hērōstēr, hērōst | hērōstiu, hērōst | hērōstaz, hērōst |
accusative | hērōstan | hērōsta | hērōstaz |
genitive | hērōstes | hērōstera | hērōstes |
dative | hērōstemu | hērōsteru | hērōstemu |
instrumental | hērōstu | — | hērōstu |
Plural | masculine | feminine | neuter |
nominative | hērōste, hērōst | hērōsto, hērōst | hērōstiu, hērōst |
accusative | hērōste | hērōsto | hērōstiu |
genitive | hērōstero | hērōstero | hērōstero |
dative | hērōstēm | hērōstēm | hērōstēm |
Singular | masculine | feminine | neuter |
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nominative | hērōsto | hērōsta | hērōsta |
accusative | hērōston | hērōstūn | hērōsta |
genitive | hērōsten | hērōstūn | hērōsten |
dative | hērōsten | hērōstūn | hērōsten |
Plural | masculine | feminine | neuter |
nominative | hērōston | hērōstūn | hērōston |
accusative | hērōston | hērōstūn | hērōston |
genitive | hērōstōno | hērōstōno | hērōstōno |
dative | hērōstōm | hērōstōm | hērōstōm |
Descendants edit
Etymology 2 edit
From Proto-West Germanic *hiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *hiz.
Pronoun edit
her
- (northern dialects) Alternative form of er
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her
Salar edit
Etymology edit
From Persian هر (har). Cognate with Bengali হর (hor, “every”), Latin salvus (“safe, whole”), Ancient Greek ὅλος (hólos, “complete, whole”).
Pronunciation edit
- (Jiezi, Gaizi, Mengda, Chahandusi, Hanbahe, Baizhuang, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA(key): [her]
- (Mengda, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA(key): [heɹ]
- (Baizhuang, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA(key): [hær]
- (Qingshui, Xunhua, Qinghai) IPA(key): [hɑ]
Adjective edit
her
Derived terms edit
- her gün (“everyday”)
References edit
- Tenishev, Edhem (1976), “her”, in Stroj salárskovo jazyká [Grammar of Salar], Moscow, pages 333-334
Turkish edit
Etymology edit
From Ottoman Turkish هر, from Persian هر (har). Cognate with Bengali হর (hor, “every”), Latin salvus (“safe, whole”), Ancient Greek ὅλος (hólos, “complete, whole”).
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her
Volapük edit
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her (nominative plural hers)
Declension edit
Welsh edit
Etymology edit
Compare English here, used in an interjectory sense as in "here! shoo! go on!"
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
her f (plural heriau, not mutable)
References edit
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “her”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
Yola edit
Etymology 1 edit
From Middle English here, from Old English hire, from Proto-West Germanic *heʀē.
Pronoun edit
her
- her
- 1867, “THE BRIDE'S PORTION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, pages 102[1]:
- A portion ich gae her, was (it's now ich have ee-tolth)
- The portion I gave her was (it's now I have told)
Etymology 2 edit
From Middle English hire, from Old English hire, from Proto-West Germanic *heʀā.
Determiner edit
her
- her
- 1927, “ZONG OF TWI MAARKEET MOANS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 129, lines 6[2]:
- An awi gome her egges wi a wheel an car taape,
- And away went her eggs, with the car overset.
- 1927, “ZONG OF TWI MAARKEET MOANS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 129, lines 8[2]:
- Shu ztaared, clappu her baashes an up wi punaan,
- She stared, clapped her palms, and up with lament,
References edit
- ^ Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland
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her
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her