hit
Middle English
/hit/
pronoun
Definitions
- Third-person singular neuter pronoun: it
- Sometimes used in reference to a child or man: he, she
- Third-person singular neuter accusative pronoun: it
- Third-person singular neuter genitive pronoun: its
- (impersonal, placeholder) Third-person singular impersonal placeholder pronoun: it
Etymology
Inherited from Old English hit (it) inherited from Proto-Germanic *hit (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
- ceterus Latin
- *ki- Proto-Indo-European
- *só Proto-Indo-European
- *ḱe- Proto-Indo-European
- *hijō Proto-Germanic
- *hit Proto-Germanic
- *hiz Proto-Germanic
- hit Old English
- it Middle English
- hit Old Norse
- et Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- hatt Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- hit Old Dutch
- it Old Saxon
- *keiwe Proto-Italic
- et Old Frisian
- hit Old Frisian