hy

1. (international standards)ISO 639-1language code forArmenian.

• hij(obsolete)

FromDutchhij, fromMiddle Dutchhi, fromOld Dutchhie,hē, fromProto-Germanic*hiz.

• IPA^(key):/ɦəi/,[ɦə̟i̯]

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hy (objecthom,possessivesy)

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, maarhy is baie moeilik om te volg.

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

• (it):dit

FromProto-Northern Jê*ˀcy(“seed”) <Proto-Cerrado*cym(“seed”) <Proto-Jê*cym(“seed”).

• IPA^(key):/hɨ/

hy

1. seed

   Hũmre ata amji mã ampeaj kam hãn ne ampohy ata kre.

   That man quietly peacefully plants those seeds (without shouting or arguments).

2. penis

   Synonym:jixôt

FromProto-Celtic*sī (compareWelshhi).

• hi
• hei

hy

1. she,her

FromProto-Brythonic*eið, from*esyās f; compareOld Irisha(“his, her, its, their”) andअस्यास्(asyā́s,“her”).

• (Revived Late Cornish)IPA^(key):/i/

hy

1. (possessive)her,its(with reference to feminine nouns; triggersaspirate mutation of following consonant)

   hy has hi

   her seeds

hy

1. her,it(with reference to feminine nouns; as object of a verbal noun; triggersaspirate mutation of following consonant)

   My vednhy fe hei.

   I will payher.

   Ny wonnhy hegi.

   I do not know how to cookit.

• Dual marking of possession is possible by addinghi/hei after the noun or verbal noun whichhy precedes. Although originally a form of emphasis, in Late Cornish this structure had largely lost its emphatic meaning.
• In Late Cornish, masculiney and femininehy had become homophonic with the pronunciation/i/.

hy

1. Aspirate mutation ofky.

FromEgyptian(hj,“husband”).

• IPA^(key):/haj/,IPA^(key):/hej/(depending on dialect)

 ⁠ ⁠  m

1. husband

• Coptic:ϩⲁⲓ(hai)(Sahidic, Bohairic),ϩⲉⲓ(hei)(Fayyumic, Akhmimic),ϩⲉⲉⲓ(heei)(Lycopolitan)

FromEgyptian(hꜣj,“to descend”).

 ⁠ ⁠ 

1. (intransitive) tofall, todescend, toperish

• Coptic:ϩⲉ(he)(Sahidic),ϩⲉⲓ(hei)(Bohairic)

• Černý, Jaroslav (1976)Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,→ISBN,page270
• Erichsen, Wolja (1954)Demotisches Glossar, Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard, pages266, 267
• Johnson, Janet (2000)Thus Wrote ꜥOnchsheshonqy: An Introductory Grammar of Demotic‎^[1], third edition, Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago,→ISBN, pages9, 78
• Janet H. Johnson, editor (2001),The Demotic Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago‎^[2], volumeH (10.1), Chicago: The University of Chicago, page11

• IPA^(key):/ɦɛi̯/

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• Rhymes:-ɛi̯
• Homophone:hei

hy

1. Obsolete spelling ofhij.

• The spellinghy was deprecated in aDutch spelling reform.

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

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

Alternative hieroglyphic writings ofhy  

hj	h

 m

1. cry ofjoy
   • c. 1401BCE,Amduat of Amenhotep II (tomb of Amenhotep II, KV35) First Hour, closing text, lines 8–9:

     jwhy n rꜥ r r(ꜣ) ꜥꜣwj tꜣ hnw n.k srq ꜣḫw ꜥq.k sbꜣ n(j) wrt

     May there becries of joy for Ra at the opening of the double doors of the earth, and acclaim for you who make theakh-spirits breathe when you enter the door of the Great (i.e. the afterworld).

Alternative hieroglyphic writings ofhy  

hy	hꜣy	hꜣy
	[New Kingdom]	[New Kingdom]

• Erman, Adolf,Grapow, Hermann (1928)Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎^[3], volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag,→ISBN,pages482.12-16, 483.1–483.13
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962)A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute,→ISBN,page157

hy

1. Alternative form ofheo(“she”)

hy

1. Alternative form ofhe(“they”)

• IPA^(key):/xyː/,[hyː]

hȳ

1. Alternative form ofhīe(“they”)

FromOld Norsehý, fromProto-Germanic*hiwją, either fromProto-Indo-European*kew-,*ḱew- or fromProto-Indo-European*ḱey-, or a merger of the two. CompareEnglishhue.

hy c (uncountable)

1. skin,complexion ((appearance of) skin on the face)

• -hyad(“-skinned”)

• hud

• hyf

FromMiddle Welshhy, fromProto-Brythonic*hɨɣ, fromProto-Celtic*segos, fromProto-Indo-European*seǵʰ-(“to overpower”).^[1]

Cognate withProto-Germanic*segaz,Sanskritसहस्(sáhas,“force, power, victory”), andAncient Greekἔχω(ékhō,“I have, I own”).

• (North Wales)IPA^(key):/hɨː/
• (South Wales)IPA^(key):/hiː/
• Rhymes:-ɨː

hy (feminine singularhy,pluralhyfion,equativehyfed,comparativehyfach,superlativehyfaf,not mutable)

1. bold

• hyder(“confidence”)

FromOld Frisianhī, fromProto-West Germanic*hiʀ, fromProto-Germanic*hiz.

• (Clay)IPA^(key):/hɛi̯/
• (Wood)IPA^(key):/hi/

hy

1. he(third-person singular masculine pronoun)

The accusativehim is usedroughly 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 stelthim op it stânpunt fan it federalisme.

This party putsitself on the standpoint of federalism.

In other reflexive cases, the reflexively marked pronounhimsels is used.

The clitic former is used before theobject of the sentence or after theverb, if there is one. It is never the first word of a sentence.

Doe'ter in swolch naam

Whenhe took a swallow

Especially innarrative,er is used in thepast tense.

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