hy

See also: Hy and hý

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch hij, from Middle Dutch hi, from Old Dutch hie, hē, from Proto-Germanic *hiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɦəi/, [ɦə̟i̯]

Pronoun

hy (object hom, possessive sy)

1. third-person singular subject pronoun
   1. he (referring to a male person)

      Hy sien my nie.

      He can’t see me.

   2. it (referring to a non-personal noun)

      Ek het die boek gelees, maar hy is baie moeilik om te volg.

      I’ve read the book, but it is very difficult to follow.

Synonyms

• (it): dit

See also

Afrikaans personal pronouns

		subjective	objective	possessive determiner	possessive pronoun
singular	1st	ek	my		myne
	2nd	jy	jou		joune
	2nd, formal	u			u s’n
	3rd, masc	hy	hom	sy	syne
	3rd, fem	sy	haar		hare
	3rd, neut	dit		sy	syne
plural	1st	ons			ons s’n
	2nd	julle / jul1			julle s’n
	3rd	hulle / hul1			hulle s’n
1. The forms jul and hul are unstressed variants. They are used mostly in possessive function, but also otherwise, chiefly when the pronoun is repeated within the same sentence.

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Cornish

Determiner

hy

1. her (possessive determiner)

Noun

hy

1. Aspirate mutation of ky.

Pronoun

hy

1. she
2. her

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Egyptian

Pronunciation

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hiː/
  • Conventional anglicization: hy

Interjection

1. (vocative, before the name of the person called) O, hey, hail
2. a call to someone unspecified; hey

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of hy  

hj	h

Noun

 m

1. cry of joy

Inflection

Declension of hy (masculine)

singular	hy
dual	hywj
plural	hyw

Alternative forms

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of hy  

hy	hꜣy	hꜣy
	[New Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]

References

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[1], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 482.12-16, 483.1–483.13
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 157

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Middle English

Etymology 1

Pronoun

hy

1. Alternative form of heo

References

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

Etymology 2

Pronoun

hy

1. Alternative form of he

References

• “he, pron. (3)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 June 2018.

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Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse hý, from Proto-Germanic *hiwją, either from Proto-Indo-European *kew-, *ḱew- or from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey-, or a merger of the two. Compare English hue.

Noun

hy c (uncountable)

1. skin, complexion

Declension

Declension of hy
	Uncountable
	Indefinite	Definite
Nominative	hy	hyn	—	—
Genitive	hys	hyns	—	—

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Welsh

Alternative forms

• hyf

Adjective

hy (feminine singular hy, plural hyfion, equative hyfed, comparative hyfach, superlative hyfaf, not mutable)

1. bold

Derived terms

• hyder (“confidence”)

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West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian hī, from Proto-Germanic *hiz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɛi̯/
• IPA^(key): /hi/

Pronoun

hy

1. he (third-person singular masculine pronoun)

Usage notes

The accusative him is used roughly like "himself" and "itself" in English. In these cases, it is used after a verb when there is another object in the sentence. For example:

Dy partij stelt him op it stânpunt fan it federalisme.

This party puts itself on the standpoint of federalism.

In other reflexive cases, the reflexively marked pronoun himsels is used.

The clitic form er is used before the object of the sentence or after the verb, if there is one. It is never the first word of a sentence.

Doe't er in swolch naam

When he took a swallow

Especially in narrative, er is used in the past tense.

Inflection

West Frisian personal pronouns

Number	Person		Nominative	Objective		Possessive
				Normal	Reflexive	Determiner	Pronoun
Singular	First		ik	my	mysels	myn	mines
	Second	Informal	do/dû1	dy	dysels	dyn	dines
		Formal	jo	jo	josels	jo	jowes
	Third	Masculine	hy	him	himsels	syn	sines
		Feminine	sy/hja1	har	harsels	har	harres
		Neuter	it	it	himsels	syn	sines
Plural	First		wy	ús	ússels	ús	uzes
	Second		jim(me)	jim(me)	jimsels/jinsels	jim(me)	jimmes
	Third		sy/hja1	har(ren)	harsels	har(ren)	harres
1. Now mostly archaic and unused

Further reading

• “hy (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

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Westrobothnian

Etymology 1

From , derived from húð.

Verb

1. to birch children

Etymology 2

Probably from Finnish.

Noun

1. gnat, the smallest species of the mosquito genus: