hir
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
PronunciationEdit
PronounEdit
hir (third-person singular, gender-neutral, objective case, reflexive hirself)
- (nonstandard) Them (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular object pronoun, coordinate with him and her.
- 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
- (neologism) hirself
DeterminerEdit
hir
- (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, , 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.
- 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.
SynonymsEdit
HyponymsEdit
Derived termsEdit
- (neologism) hirs
See alsoEdit
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)
- kindness, favor, sake
- willingness, goodwill
- beauty, grace, charm, dignity
- (religious) heavenly grace
Derived termsEdit
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Orel, Vladimir (1998), “hir”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 148
- ^ 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
Derived termsEdit
Related termsEdit
BaureEdit
Alternative formsEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
hir
BretonEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Middle Breton hir, from Proto-Brythonic *hir, from Proto-Celtic *sīros.
AdjectiveEdit
hir
AntonymsEdit
BurushaskiEdit
NounEdit
hir (plural huri)
- 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)
DeclensionEdit
Not declined; used only in the nominative and accusative singular, singular only.
Case | Singular |
---|---|
Nominative | hir |
Genitive | — |
Dative | — |
Accusative | hir |
Ablative | — |
Vocative | — |
SynonymsEdit
- (hand): manus
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
- third-person feminine singular, dative: her, to her
- Ech schreiwen hir e Bréif
- I'm writing her a letter
- Ech schreiwen hir e Bréif
DeclensionEdit
nominative | accusative | dative | reflexive | ||||||
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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
- third-person singular feminine possessive, feminine object, nominative: her
- third-person singular feminine possessive, plural object, nominative: her
- third-person singular feminine possessive, feminine object, accusative: her
- third-person singular feminine possessive, plural object, accusative: her
- third-person plural possessive, feminine object, nominative: their
- third-person plural possessive, plural object, nominative: their
- third-person plural possessive, feminine object, accusative: their
- third-person plural possessive, plural object, accusative: their
DeclensionEdit
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
- Alternative form of hire (“her”)
PronounEdit
hir
- Alternative form of hire (“hers”)
Etymology 2Edit
PronounEdit
hir
- Alternative form of hire (“her”)
Etymology 3Edit
NounEdit
hir
- Alternative form of hire (“wages”)
PortugueseEdit
VerbEdit
hir (first-person singular present indicative vou, past participle hido)
- Obsolete spelling of ir
ConjugationEdit
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Serbo-CroatianEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
hȋr m (Cyrillic spelling хи̑р)
DeclensionEdit
SumerianEdit
RomanizationEdit
hir
- 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)
Derived termsEdit
Etymology 2Edit
AdjectiveEdit
hir
- 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 | |||
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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. |