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hir

See also: Hir, hír, and hir'

English

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Etymology

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Blend of him/his +‎ her.

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Pronoun

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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, Jeffrey Carver, 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, Caitlin Sullivan with 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, Kate Bornstein, 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, Peter David, 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."

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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, Jeffrey Carver, 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, Caitlin Sullivan with 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, Frank Schaap, 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, Jody Norton, “Transchildren and the Discipline of Children's Literature”, in Kenneth B. Kidd, 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, Ken Wickham, 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.
    • 2023 June 22, Kurt Soller, Liz Brown, Rose Courteau, Kate Guadagnino, Sara Holdren, “The 25 Most Influential Works of Postwar Queer Literature”, in The New York Times‎[5], →ISSN:
      A lifelong political activist, Leslie Feinberg (who used the pronoun hir) devoted most of hir writing to exploring the complexities of gender.

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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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Albanian

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Etymology

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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]

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

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

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  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (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

Aromanian

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Etymology

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From Latin fīlum. Compare Daco-Romanian fir.

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hir n (plural hiri or hire)

  1. thread

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hir

  1. man

Breton

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Etymology

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    Inherited from Middle Breton hir,[1] from Proto-Brythonic *hir (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?), from Proto-Celtic *sīros.[1]

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    hir

    1. long
      Antonym: berr

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    This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

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    1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*sīro-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 337

    Burushaski

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    hir (plural huri)

    1. man (clarification of this definition is needed)

    Latin

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    Etymology

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

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    hir n sg (indeclinable, no genitive)

    1. (rare, anatomy) hand

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    Indeclinable noun (used only in the nominative and accusative), singular only.

    singular
    nominative hir
    genitive —
    dative —
    accusative hir
    ablative —
    vocative —

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    • “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.

    Luxembourgish

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    Etymology

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

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    hir

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

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    Luxembourgish personal pronouns
    nominative accusative dative reflexive
    stressed unstressed stressed unstressed stressed unstressed
    singular 1st person ech — mech — mir mer like dat. and acc.
    2nd person informal du de dech — dir der like dat. and acc.
    formal Dir Der Iech Iech [əɕ] Iech Iech [əɕ] Iech
    3rd person 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
    plural 1st person mir mer eis (ons) — eis (ons) — eis (ons)
    2nd person dir der iech iech [əɕ] iech iech [əɕ] iech
    3rd person si se si se hinnen en sech

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    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

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

    Middle English

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    hir

    1. Alternative form of hire (“her”)

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    hir

    1. Alternative form of hire (“hers”)

    Etymology 2

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    Pronoun

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    hir

    1. Alternative form of hire (“her”)

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    hir

    1. Alternative form of hire (“wages”)

    Old English

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    hīr

    1. singular imperative of hīran

    Portuguese

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

    1. Obsolete spelling of ir.

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    hȋr m (Cyrillic spelling хи̑р)

    1. whim, caprice
      Sve je samo hir - It's all just a whim

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    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

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    hir

    1. Romanization of 𒆟 (ḫir)

    Welsh

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    Etymology 1

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

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

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

    1. h-prothesized form of ir

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    Mutated forms of hir
    radical soft nasal aspirate
    hir unchanged unchanged unchanged

    References

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    • 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
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