Talk:hen

I removed the following translations, as they do not correspond to a definition. Is there a definition of ‘hen’ meaning ‘woman’? woman

• Danish: høne f,
• French: poule f

henne 14:38, 24 November 2006 (UTC)

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I don't know how the Danish "høne" was originally incorporated into this listing, but it should be relevant as a cognate. Dictionary.com has an etymology for hen that can be found on wiktionary's Danish "høne": From Old Norse hœna, from Proto-Indo-European *kan- (“to sing”).

Thus making all the 'han' words in all the different germanic languages cognates with eachother and with Latin canere--> cantare--> (English) chant.

RFV discussion: October 2016

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hen

The sources for the Swedish sense of "hen" are not durably archived. --anon — This unsigned comment was added by Rasptr (talk • contribs) at 17:57, 30 October 2016 (UTC).

@Rasptr Did you mean to challenge both the gender-neutral pronoun and the archaic noun, or just the gender-neutral pronoun? —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 20:12, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

I see that you've moved the {{rfv}} tag to the section for the pronoun, which seems to answer my question. I've added three quotations that look durably archived. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 21:06, 30 October 2016 (UTC)

• Striking: RFV tag removed by the nominator. —Mr. Granger (talk • contribs) 00:11, 31 October 2016 (UTC)

gossiping hen

"Look, your old flame!" (Thanks, gossiping hen.) page 260 I don't fully understand this usage- is it really derogatory (outside Marxist analysis), etc. --Geographyinitiative (talk) 16:00, 8 September 2022 (UTC)

Finnish hen OsmoHy (talk) 17:30, 29 March 2023 (UTC)

Genitive case for "he" meaning 'they' is "heidän". "Hen" is not a word in Finnish. OsmoHy (talk) 17:33, 29 March 2023 (UTC)

It is the genitive singular form of the noun he, which refers to a letter of a few Semitic alphabets: He (kirjain). — SURJECTION ^{/ T / C / L /} 18:49, 29 March 2023 (UTC)