sche

See also: -'sche and -sche

Middle English

Alternative forms

• she, che, se, sheo, scheo, scheu, scheue, ȝho, sse, sso, sȝheo, sce, sge, xe, scæ, shoe, schou, schowe, shouȝ, shue, schu, schue, shae, scha, schoe, sco, cho, so, sho, scho, shoy, schoy, cheo, choy, sheu, shou, shuo, xhe

Etymology

Most likely from Old English hēo, hīo (“she”), from Proto-West Germanic *hiju, from Proto-Germanic *hijō f (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this, here”), but see she for more. Compare heo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃeː/, /ʃoː/

Pronoun

sche (accusative hire, his, genitive hire, possessive determiner hires)

1. Third-person singular feminine pronoun: she
2. It; used also of inanimate objects

Usage notes

In addition to referring to female humans and animals, this pronoun was used for inanimate objects belonging to the feminine grammatical gender early in Middle English. As grammatical gender obsolesced, this pronoun continued to refer to inanimate objects.

Descendants

• English: she
• Scots: scho, shu
• Yola: shoo, shea

See also

Middle English personal pronouns

			nominative	accusative	dative	genitive	possessive
singular	1st-person		I, ich, ik	me		min mi1	min
	2nd-person		þou	þe		þin þi1	þin
	3rd-person	m	he	him hine2	him	his	his hisen
		f	sche, heo	hire heo	hire		hire hires, hiren
		n	hit		hit him2	his, hit	—
dual3	1st-person		wit	unk		unker
	2nd-person		ȝit	inc		inker
plural	1st-person		we	us, ous		oure	oure oures, ouren
	2nd-person4		ye	yow		your	your youres, youren
	3rd-person	inh.	he	hem he2	hem	here	here heres, heren
		bor.	þei	þem, þeim		þeir	þeir þeires, þeiren

¹Used preconsonantally or before h.
²Early or dialectal.
³Dual pronouns are only sporadically found in Early Middle English; after that, they are replaced by plural forms. There are no third-person dual forms in Middle English.
⁴Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.

References

• “shẹ̄, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 9 May 2018.

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Romansch

Etymology

From Latin sī.

Conjunction

sche

1. if