he
Middle English
/heː/
pronoun
Definitions
- Third-person singular masculine pronoun: he
- it; used also of inanimate objects
- (impersonal) Third-person singular impersonal pronoun: one; you
Etymology
Inherited from Old English hē (hey) inherited from Proto-Germanic *hiz (this, this one).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*hiz
Gloss
this, this one
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-bitch English
- he-she English
- hefemale English
- heorshe English
- here English
- she-he English
- *ḱe Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱe- Proto-Indo-European
- *hes Proto-Germanic
- *hiu dagō Proto-Germanic
- *hiz Proto-Germanic
- *sa Proto-Germanic
- eala Old English
- he Old English
- hē Old English
- ha Middle English
- hie Middle English
- hēr Old High German
- hie Old Dutch
- hīe Old Dutch
- he Old Saxon
- hē Old Saxon
- imu Old Saxon
- ina Old Saxon
- ira Old Saxon
- ire Old Saxon
- iro Old Saxon
- iru Old Saxon
- siu Old Saxon
- he Scots
- hi Old Frisian
- hiōda Old Frisian
- hī Old Frisian