hine

See also: Hine, ĥine, and hiñe

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈhiːnə]

Pronoun

hine

1. plural of hin

Irish

Etymology

From Arabic حِنَّاء (ḥinnāʔ).

Noun

hine f (genitive singular hine)

1. henna (Lawsonia inermis) (shrub; dye; color)

Declension

Declension of hine (fourth declension, no plural)

bare forms singular nominative hine vocative a hine genitive hine dative hine forms with the definite article singular nominative an hine genitive na hine dative leis an hine don hine

Further reading

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977) “hine”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

Japanese

Romanization

hine

1. Rōmaji transcription of ひね

Middle Dutch

Contraction

hine

1. Contraction of hi ne.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• hyne, ine, in, hin, hyn

Etymology

From Old English hine. Originally an accusative form; gradually displaced by dative him.

Pronoun

hine (nominative he)

2. Third-person singular masculine pronoun indicating a grammatical object: him.
3. (reflexive) himself.
4. Third-person singular neuter pronoun indicating a grammatical object: it.
5. (impersonal) Third-person singular neuter pronoun indicating a grammatical object one, you.

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

• “hine, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 8 May 2018.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /²hiːnə/

Determiner

hine pl (masculine hin, feminine hi, neuter hitt)

1. plural of hin

Old English

Alternative forms

• hyne

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhine/

Pronoun

hine

1. accusative of hē: him

Descendants

• Middle English: hine

Old Frisian

Pronoun

hine

1. accusative of hī: him

Declension

Old Frisian personal pronoun declensions

			nominative	accusative	dative	genitive
singular	1st person		ik	mī	mī	mīn
	2nd person		thū	thī	thī	thīn
	3rd person	m	hī	hine	him	sīn
		f	hiū, hiō	hiā	hire, hiāre	hire, hiāre
		n	hit	hit	him	sīn
plural	1st person		wī	ūs	ūs	ūser
	2nd person		jī	jū, jō	jū, jō	jūwer
	3rd person		hiā	hiā	him, hirem, hiārem	hira, hiāra