Wiktionary

hir

See also: Hir, hír, and hir'

EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

Blend of him/his +‎ her.

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

hir (third-person singular, gender-neutral, objective case, reflexive hirself)

  1. (nonstandard) Them (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular object pronoun, coordinate with him and her.
    • 1988, Carver, Jeffrey, From a Changeling Star, New York: Bantam Books, →ISBN, →OL, page 232:
      But once the disorientation had passed, hir forced hirself back to full consciousness--and worked quickly to establish hir position, and Ruskin's.
    • 1996 June, Sullivan, Caitlin; Bornstein, Kate, Nearly Roadkill: an Infobahn erotic adventure‎[1], New York: Serpent's Tail, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, LCC PS3569.U3449 N43 1996, page 10:
      I don't know what Scratch looks like in the real world, I met hir online.
    • 1997 December 18, Bornstein, Kate, My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely‎[2], London, New York: Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, LCC HQ1075.B69 1998, page 130:
      Words like "freak" became attached to hir name, and I don't believe "brave" was ever a word the media associated with hir.
    • 2000 August 29, David, Peter, Renaissance (Star Trek New Frontier: Excalibur #10)‎[3], Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, page 137:
      T'Pau leveled a gaze at hir. "You are male and female ... and neither. 'It' is the proper word. We have no use for semantic games on Vulcan."

SynonymsEdit

HyponymsEdit

Derived termsEdit

DeterminerEdit

hir

  1. (nonstandard) Belonging to hir, their (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular possessive adjective, coordinate with his and her.
    • 1971 March 1, Alexander M. Mood, “Partitioning Variance in Multiple Regression Analyses as a Tool For Developing Learning Models”, in American Educational Research Journal, volume 8, number 2, American Educational Research Association, →DOI, page 192:
      Getting down to cases now, a child's learning, L, in the sixth grade will be a function of a number, say k, of variables X1 X2, X3, ... Xk representing hir (hir is an abbreviation for his or her and is pronounced here) previous education, motivation, rapport with teachers, peers' atitudes toward education, teachers' ability, and so on.
    • 1988, Carver, Jeffrey, From a Changeling Star, New York: Bantam Books, →ISBN, →OL, page 232:
      But once the disorientation had passed, hir forced hirself back to full consciousness--and worked quickly to establish hir position, and Ruskin's.
    • 1996 June, Sullivan, Caitlin; Bornstein, Kate, Nearly Roadkill: an Infobahn erotic adventure, New York: Serpent's Tail, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, LCC PS3569.U3449 N43 1996, page 13:
      It is here that Scratch has found hirself, bored out of hir mind but unable to sleep.
    • 2002, Schaap, Frank, The Words That Took Us There: Ethnography in a Virtual Reality, Amsterdam: Aksant Academic Publishers, →ISBN, →OL, page 32:
      The player playing hir character in a MUD (usually) tries to portray a credible, convincing person within the theme of that world, using the tools that MUD provides, hir imagination, and hir social and communicative skills.
    • 2011 March 29, Norton, Jody, “Transchildren and the Discipline of Children's Literature”, in Kenneth B. Kidd and Michelle Ann Abate, editors, Over the Rainbow: Queer Children's and Young Adult Literature, University of Michigan, →ISBN, LCC PS374.H63 O84 2011, page 305:
      "It's a scientific matter," Ludo announces, explaining hir very out transgender behavior (an ongoing source of embarrassment to hir would-be upwardly mobile parents) as the result of hir other X chromosome's having accidentally fallen into the trash on its way down from heaven.
    • 2011 May 19, Wickham, Ken, The Other Genders: Androgyne, Genderqueer, Non-Binary Gender Variant‎[4], CreateSpace, →ISBN, page 7:
      Sie may feel that hir actual identity of hir gender is supposed to be both/neither male or female, outside of gender, third gender, beyond gender, absence of gender, mixing gender, changing gender, or all genders.

Usage notesEdit

A declension shared by several gender-neutral pronoun schemata. Subjective forms associated with hir include s/he, sie, shi, and ze. For additional considerations regarding use among members of the genderqueer community, see usage notes for ze.

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AnagramsEdit

AlbanianEdit

EtymologyEdit

Possibly from Proto-Albanian *skīra, from a Proto-Indo-European *sḱeyr-o- (“shine, reflex”), whence German schier (“pure, clear”), Polish szczery (“sincere, earnest”), Ancient Greek σκίρον (skíron, “parasol”).[1][2]

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

hir m (indefinite plural hire, definite singular hiri, definite plural hiret)

  1. kindness, favor, sake
  2. willingness, goodwill
  3. beauty, grace, charm, dignity
  4. (religious) heavenly grace

Derived termsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir (1998), “hir”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 148
  2. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “σκίρον”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 1354–1355

AromanianEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Latin fīlum. Compare Daco-Romanian fir.

NounEdit

hir n (plural hiri or hire)

  1. thread

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Related termsEdit

BaureEdit

Alternative formsEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

hir

  1. man

BretonEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Middle Breton hir, from Proto-Brythonic *hir, from Proto-Celtic *sīros.

AdjectiveEdit

hir

  1. long

AntonymsEdit

BurushaskiEdit

NounEdit

hir (plural huri)

  1. man (clarification of this definition is needed)

LatinEdit

Alternative formsEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Italic *hezor, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰésōr. Cognate with Ancient Greek χείρ (kheír).

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

hir n sg (indeclinable, no genitive)

  1. (rare, anatomy) hand

DeclensionEdit

Not declined; used only in the nominative and accusative singular, singular only.

Case Singular
Nominative hir
Genitive —
Dative —
Accusative hir
Ablative —
Vocative —

SynonymsEdit

ReferencesEdit

  • “hir”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
  • hir in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette

LuxembourgishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Old High German ira, from Proto-Germanic *hezōi.

PronunciationEdit

PronounEdit

hir

  1. third-person feminine singular, dative: her, to her
    Ech schreiwen hir e Bréif
    I'm writing her a letter

DeclensionEdit

Luxembourgish personal pronouns
nominative accusative dative reflexive
str. unstr. str. unstr. str. unstr.
1st person singular ech — mech — mir mer like dat. and acc.
2nd person singular
(informal) 		du de dech — dir der like dat. and acc.
2nd person singular
(formal) 		Dir Der Iech Iech [əɕ] Iech Iech [əɕ] Iech
3rd person singular m hien en hien en him em sech
f si se si se hir er sech
n hatt et ('t) hatt et ('t) him em sech
1st person plural mir mer eis (ons) — eis (ons) — eis (ons)
2nd person plural dir der iech iech [əɕ] iech iech [əɕ] iech
3rd person plural si se si se hinnen en sech

PronounEdit

hir

  1. third-person singular feminine possessive, feminine object, nominative: her
  2. third-person singular feminine possessive, plural object, nominative: her
  3. third-person singular feminine possessive, feminine object, accusative: her
  4. third-person singular feminine possessive, plural object, accusative: her
  5. third-person plural possessive, feminine object, nominative: their
  6. third-person plural possessive, plural object, nominative: their
  7. third-person plural possessive, feminine object, accusative: their
  8. third-person plural possessive, plural object, accusative: their

DeclensionEdit

Luxembourgish possessive pronouns
nominative / accusative dative
masculine feminine neuter plural masculine feminine neuter plural
1st person singular mäin meng mäin meng mengem menger mengem mengen
2nd person singular (informal) däin deng däin deng dengem denger dengem dengen
2nd person singular (formal) Ären Är Äert Är Ärem Ärer Ärem Ären
3rd person singular (m/n) säin seng säin seng sengem senger sengem sengen
3rd person singular (f) hiren hir hiert hir hirem hirer hirem hiren
1st person plural eisen eis eist eis eisem eiser eisem eisen
2nd person plural ären är äert är ärem ärer ärem ären
3rd person plural hiren hir hiert hir hirem hirer hirem hiren

Middle EnglishEdit

Etymology 1Edit

DeterminerEdit

hir

  1. Alternative form of hire (“her”)

PronounEdit

hir

  1. Alternative form of hire (“hers”)

Etymology 2Edit

PronounEdit

hir

  1. Alternative form of hire (“her”)

Etymology 3Edit

NounEdit

hir

  1. Alternative form of hire (“wages”)

PortugueseEdit

VerbEdit

hir (first-person singular present indicative vou, past participle hido)

  1. Obsolete spelling of ir

ConjugationEdit

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Serbo-CroatianEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

hȋr m (Cyrillic spelling хи̑р)

  1. whim, caprice

DeclensionEdit

Declension of hir
singular plural
nominative hȋr hírovi
genitive hira hirova
dative hiru hirovima
accusative hir hirove
vocative hire hirovi
locative hiru hirovima
instrumental hirom hirovima

SumerianEdit

RomanizationEdit

hir

  1. Romanization of 𒆟 (ḫir)

WelshEdit

PronunciationEdit

Etymology 1Edit

From Middle Welsh and Old Welsh hir, from Proto-Brythonic *hir, from Proto-Celtic *sīros.

AdjectiveEdit

hir (feminine singular hir, plural hirion, equative cyhyd, comparative hwy or hirach, superlative hwyaf or hiraf, not mutable)

  1. long
    Mae gynni hi wallt hir.
    She has long hair.
    Roedd y daith yn hir iawn.
    The journey was very long.
    Synonyms: hirfaith, llaes, maith
    Antonyms: byr, cwta
Derived termsEdit

Etymology 2Edit

AdjectiveEdit

hir

  1. h-prothesized form of ir

Further readingEdit

  • R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “hir”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

MutationEdit

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal h-prothesis
ir unchanged unchanged hir
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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