hon
Swedish
/hʊn/
pronoun
Definitions
- she; the third-person, singular, feminine pronoun in the nominative case
- it (for certain nouns that were feminine in Old Swedish)
Etymology
Inherited from Old Swedish hon, hōn inherited from Old Norse hón (she) inherited from Proto-Germanic *hēnō.
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*hēnō
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- he-she English
- heorshe English
- she English
- she-he English
- shemale English
- hun Norwegian Bokmål
- hunkjønn Norwegian Bokmål
- *hēnō Proto-Germanic
- sche Middle English
- hon Old Norse
- hón Old Norse
- hun Danish
- hunkøn Danish
- hún Icelandic
- hon Faroese
- hon Old Swedish
- hon, hōn Old Swedish
- hu Westrobothnian
- *ᚺᚨᚾᚢ Proto-Norse