hir

See also: Hir, hír, and hir'

English

Etymology

Blend of him/his +‎ her.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /hɪə(ɹ)/
• (US) enPR: hēr, IPA^(key): /hiɹ/
• Homophones: here, hear

Pronoun

hir (third-person singular, gender-neutral, objective case, reflexive hirself)

1. Them (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular object pronoun, coordinate with him and her.
   • 1988, Jeffrey Carver, From a Changeling Star, New York: Bantam Books, →ISBN, →OL, page 232:

     But once the disorientation had passed, hir forced hirself back to full consciousness--and worked quickly to establish hir position, and Ruskin's.

   • 1996 June, Caitlin Sullivan with Bornstein, Kate, Nearly Roadkill: an Infobahn erotic adventure‎^[1], New York: Serpent's Tail, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, LCC PS3569.U3449 N43 1996, page 10:

     I don't know what Scratch looks like in the real world, I met hir online.

   • 1997 December 18, Kate Bornstein, My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely‎^[2], London, New York: Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, LCC HQ1075.B69 1998, page 130:

     Words like "freak" became attached to hir name, and I don't believe "brave" was ever a word the media associated with hir.

   • 2000 August 29, Peter David, Renaissance (Star Trek New Frontier: Excalibur #10)‎^[3], Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, page 137:

     T'Pau leveled a gaze at hir. "You are male and female ... and neither. 'It' is the proper word. We have no use for semantic games on Vulcan."

Synonyms

• (singular) them
• (neologism) em, per

Hyponyms

• him, her

Derived terms

• (neologism) hirself

Determiner

hir

1. Belonging to hir, their (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular possessive adjective, coordinate with his and her.
   • 1988, Jeffrey Carver, From a Changeling Star, New York: Bantam Books, →ISBN, →OL, page 232:

     But once the disorientation had passed, hir forced hirself back to full consciousness--and worked quickly to establish hir position, and Ruskin's.

   • 1996 June, Caitlin Sullivan with Bornstein, Kate, Nearly Roadkill: an Infobahn erotic adventure, New York: Serpent's Tail, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, LCC PS3569.U3449 N43 1996, page 13:

     It is here that Scratch has found hirself, bored out of hir mind but unable to sleep.

   • 2002, Frank Schaap, The Words That Took Us There: Ethnography in a Virtual Reality, Amsterdam: Aksant Academic Publishers, →ISBN, →OL, page 32:

     The player playing hir character in a MUD (usually) tries to portray a credible, convincing person within the theme of that world, using the tools that MUD provides, hir imagination, and hir social and communicative skills.

   • 2003, Susan Wright, Slave Trade (Slave Trade Trilogy #1), Pocket Books, →ISBN, →OL, page 17:

     The garment covered hir dual genitals, but hir slightly rounded breasts and smooth shoulders were revealed.

   • 2011 March 29, Jody Norton, “Transchildren and the Discipline of Children's Literature”, in Kenneth B. Kidd and Michelle Ann Abate, editors, Over the Rainbow: Queer Children's and Young Adult Literature, University of Michigan, →ISBN, LCC PS374.H63 O84 2011, page 305:

     "It's a scientific matter," Ludo announces, explaining hir very out transgender behavior (an ongoing source of embarrassment to hir would-be upwardly mobile parents) as the result of hir other X chromosome's having accidentally fallen into the trash on its way down from heaven.

   • 2011 May 19, Ken Wickham, The Other Genders: Androgyne, Genderqueer, Non-Binary Gender Variant‎^[4], CreateSpace, →ISBN, page 7:

     Sie may feel that hir actual identity of hir gender is supposed to be both/neither male or female, outside of gender, third gender, beyond gender, absence of gender, mixing gender, changing gender, or all genders.

Usage notes

A declension shared by several gender-neutral pronoun schema. Subjective forms associated with hir include s/he, sie, shi, and ze. For additional considerations regarding use among members of the genderqueer community, see usage notes for ze.

Synonyms

• (singular) their
• (neologism) eir

Hyponyms

• his, her

Derived terms

• (neologism) hirs

See also

• other attested and proposed gender-neutral pronouns

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Albanian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hiːr/

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *skīra, from Proto-Indo-European *sḱiH-ro- (“to dim, shimmer”) (compare German schier (“pure, clear”), Polish szczery (“sincere, earnest”), Ancient Greek σκῖρον (skîron, “parasol”)).

Noun

hir m (plural hire, definite hiri, definite plural hiret)

1. kindness, favor, sake
2. willingness, goodwill
3. beauty, grace, charm, dignity
4. (religious) heavenly grace

Derived terms

• hire
• hirës
• hirësi
• hirësisht
• hiroj

Compounds

• hirmadh
• hirplotë

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Aromanian

Alternative forms

• hjir, hiru

Etymology

From Latin fīlum. Compare Daco-Romanian fir.

Noun

hir n (plural hiri or hire)

1. thread

Derived terms

• hirush
• nhiric

Related terms

• nhir

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Baure

Alternative forms

• jir

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hir/

Noun

hir

1. man

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Breton

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *hir, from Proto-Celtic *sīros.

Adjective

hir

1. long

Antonyms

• berr

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Burushaski

Noun

hir (plural huri)

1. man (clarification of this definition is needed)

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Latin

Alternative forms

• ir

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰésr̥. Cognate with Ancient Greek χείρ (kheír).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /hir/, [hɪr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ir/, [ir]

Noun

hir n sg (indeclinable, no genitive)

1. (rare, anatomy) hand

Declension

Not declined; used only in the nominative and accusative singular, singular only.

Case	Singular
Nominative	hir
Genitive	—
Dative	—
Accusative	hir
Ablative	—
Vocative	—

Synonyms

• (hand): manus

References

• “hir”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• hir in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.

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Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hiːʀ/, [ˈhiː.ɐ], [hiə̯]
• Homophone: hier

Pronoun

hir

1. third-person feminine singular, dative: her, to her

   Ech schreiwen hir e Bréif

   I'm writing her a letter

Declension

Luxembourgish personal pronouns

		nominative		accusative		dative		reflexive
		str.	unstr.	str.	unstr.	str.	unstr.
1st person singular		ech	—	mech	—	mir	mer	like dat. and acc.
2nd person singular (informal)		du	de	dech	—	dir	der	like dat. and acc.
2nd person singular (formal)		Dir	Der	Iech	Iech [əɕ]	Iech	Iech [əɕ]	Iech
3rd person singular	m	hien	en	hien	en	him	em	sech
	f	si	se	si	se	hir	er	sech
	n	hatt	et ('t)	hatt	et ('t)	him	em	sech
1st person plural		mir	mer	eis (ons)	—	eis (ons)	—	eis (ons)
2nd person plural		dir	der	iech	iech [əɕ]	iech	iech [əɕ]	iech
3rd person plural		si	se	si	se	hinnen	en	sech

Pronoun

hir

1. third-person singular feminine possessive, feminine object, nominative: her
2. third-person singular feminine possessive, plural object, nominative: her
3. third-person singular feminine possessive, feminine object, accusative: her
4. third-person singular feminine possessive, plural object, accusative: her
5. third-person plural possessive, feminine object, nominative: their
6. third-person plural possessive, plural object, nominative: their
7. third-person plural possessive, feminine object, accusative: their
8. third-person plural possessive, plural object, accusative: their

Declension

Luxembourgish possessive pronouns

	nominative / accusative				dative
	masculine	feminine	neuter	plural	masculine	feminine	neuter	plural
1st person singular	mäin	meng	mäin	meng	mengem	menger	mengem	mengen
2nd person singular (informal)	däin	deng	däin	deng	dengem	denger	dengem	dengen
2nd person singular (formal)	Ären	Är	Äert	Är	Ärem	Ärer	Ärem	Ären
3rd person singular (m/n)	säin	seng	säin	seng	sengem	senger	sengem	sengen
3rd person singular (f)	hiren	hir	hiert	hir	hirem	hirer	hirem	hiren
1st person plural	eisen	eis	eist	eis	eisem	eiser	eisem	eisen
2nd person plural	ären	är	äert	är	ärem	ärer	ärem	ären
3rd person plural	hiren	hir	hiert	hir	hirem	hirer	hirem	hiren

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Middle English

Etymology 1

Determiner

hir

1. Alternative form of hire

Pronoun

hir

1. Alternative form of hire

References

• “hir, (pron.1)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 May 2018.

Etymology 2

Pronoun

hir

1. Alternative form of hire

References

• “hir(e), pron (2)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 June 2018.

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Portuguese

Verb

hir (first-person singular present indicative vou, past participle hido)

1. Obsolete spelling of ir

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xîːr/

Noun

hȋr m (Cyrillic spelling хи̑р)

1. whim, caprice

Declension

Declension of hir

	singular	plural
nominative	hȋr	hírovi
genitive	hira	hirova
dative	hiru	hirovima
accusative	hir	hirove
vocative	hire	hirovi
locative	hiru	hirovima
instrumental	hirom	hirovima

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Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hiːr/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Brythonic *hir, from Proto-Celtic *sīros.

Adjective

hir (feminine singular hir, plural hirion, equative cyhyd, comparative hwy, superlative hwyaf, not mutable)

1. long

   Mae gynni hi wallt hir.

   She has long hair.

   Roedd y taith yn hir iawn.

   The journey was very long.

Synonyms

• hirfaith
• llaes
• maith

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
hir	unchanged	unchanged	unchanged

Etymology 2

Mutation of ir (“raw”).

Adjective

hir

1. h-prothesized form of ir

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical	soft	nasal	h-prothesis
ir	unchanged	unchanged	hir
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.