she
English
/ʃiː/, /ʃi/
pron
Definitions
- (personal) The female person or animal previously mentioned or implied.
- (personal) A ship or boat.
- (personal) A country, or sometimes a city, province, planet, etc.
- (personal) Any machine or thing, such as a car, a computer, or (poetically) a season.
- (personal) A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant used in a work, along with or in place of he, as an indefinite pronoun.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English sche inherited from Old English hēo (she) derived from Proto-Germanic *hijō (this, this one) derived from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe- (here, demonstrative particle).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*ḱe-
Gloss
here, demonstrative particle
Concept
Semantic Field
Miscellaneous function words
Ontological Category
Other
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- he English
- he-she English
- heorshe English
- male English
- or English
- she-he English
- shemale English
- ceterus Latin
- *só Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱe- Proto-Indo-European
- *hijō Proto-Germanic
- *hit Proto-Germanic
- *hiz Proto-Germanic
- hon Swedish
- heo Old English
- hio Old English
- hēo Old English
- heo Middle English
- hoo Middle English
- sche Middle English
- scheu Middle English
- scho Middle English
- sco Middle English
- sho Middle English
- shouȝ Middle English
- sso Middle English
- hón Old Norse
- hun Danish
- hunkøn Danish
- hon, hōn Old Swedish
- *keiwe Proto-Italic