hir
- (international standards)ISO 639-3language code forHimarimã.
Blend ofhim/his +her.
hir (third-person singular,gender-neutral, objective case,reflexivehirself)
- (nonstandard)Them(singular).Gender-neutral third-person singular object pronoun, coordinate withhim andher.
1988, Jeffrey Carver,From a Changeling Star, New York: Bantam Books,→ISBN,→OL, page232:But once the disorientation had passed,hir forced hirself back to full consciousness--and worked quickly to establishhir position, and Ruskin's.
1996 June, Caitlin Sullivan withBornstein, Kate,Nearly Roadkill: an Infobahn erotic adventure[1], New York: Serpent's Tail,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OL,LCCPS3569.U3449 N43 1996, page10:I don't know what Scratch looks like in the real world, I methir 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,LCCHQ1075.B69 1998, page130:Words like "freak" became attached to hir name, and I don't believe "brave" was ever a word the media associated withhir.
2000 August 29,Peter David,Renaissance (Star Trek New Frontier: Excalibur #10)[3], Simon & Schuster,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OL, page137:T'Pau leveled a gaze athir. "You are male and female ... and neither. 'It' is the proper word. We have no use for semantic games on Vulcan."
hir
- (nonstandard)Belonging tohir,their(singular).Gender-neutral third-person singular possessive adjective, coordinate withhis andher.
1971 March 1, Alexander M. Mood, “Partitioning Variance in Multiple Regression Analyses as a Tool For Developing Learning Models”, inAmerican Educational Research Journal, volume 8, number 2, American Educational Research Association,→DOI, page192:Getting down to cases now, a child's learning, L, in the sixth grade will be a function of a number, say k, of variables X1 X2, X3, ... Xk representinghir (hir is an abbreviation for his or her and is pronounced here) previous education, motivation, rapport with teachers, peers' atitudes toward education, teachers' ability, and so on.
1988, Jeffrey Carver,From a Changeling Star, New York: Bantam Books,→ISBN,→OL, page232:But once the disorientation had passed, hir forced hirself back to full consciousness--and worked quickly to establishhir position, and Ruskin's.
1996 June, Caitlin Sullivan withBornstein, Kate,Nearly Roadkill: an Infobahn erotic adventure, New York: Serpent's Tail,→ISBN,→LCCN,→OL,LCCPS3569.U3449 N43 1996,page13:It is here that Scratch has foundhirself, bored out ofhir 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,page32:The player playinghir character in aMUD (usually) tries to portray a credible, convincing person within the theme of that world, using the tools that MUD provides,hir imagination, andhir social and communicative skills.
2011 March 29, Jody Norton, “Transchildren and the Discipline of Children's Literature”, in Kenneth B. Kidd, Michelle Ann Abate, editors,Over the Rainbow: Queer Children's and Young Adult Literature, University of Michigan,→ISBN,LCCPS374.H63 O84 2011,page305:"It's a scientific matter," Ludo announces, explaininghir very out transgender behavior (an ongoing source of embarrassment tohir would-be upwardly mobile parents) as the result ofhir 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 thathir actual identity ofhir 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.
2023 June 22, Kurt Soller, Liz Brown, Rose Courteau, Kate Guadagnino, Sara Holdren, “The 25 Most Influential Works of Postwar Queer Literature”, inThe New York Times[5],→ISSN:A lifelong political activist, Leslie Feinberg (who used the pronoun hir) devoted most ofhir writing to exploring the complexities of gender.
A declension shared by several gender-neutral pronoun schemata. Subjective forms associated withhir includes/he,sie,shi, andze. For additional considerations regarding use among members of thegenderqueer community, see usage notes forze.
Possibly fromProto-Albanian*skīra, from aProto-Indo-European*sḱeyr-o-(“shine, reflex”), whenceGermanschier(“pure, clear”),Polishszczery(“sincere, earnest”),Ancient Greekσκίρον(skíron,“parasol”).[1][2]
hir m (pluralhire, definitehiri, definite pluralhiret)
- kindness, favor, sake
- willingness,goodwill
- beauty,grace,charm,dignity
- (religious) heavenlygrace
- ^Orel, Vladimir E. (1998), “hir”, inAlbanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden; Boston; Köln: Brill,→ISBN, page148
- ^Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010), “σκίρον”, inEtymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series;10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill,→ISBN, pages1354–1355
- “hir”, inFGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian),2006
FromLatinfīlum. Compare Daco-Romanianfir.
hir n (pluralhiriorhire)
- thread
hir
- man
Inherited fromMiddle Bretonhir,[1] fromProto-Brythonic*hir(Canthis(+) etymology besourced?), fromProto-Celtic*sīros.[1]
hir
- long
- Antonym:berr
This adjective needs aninflection-table template.
hir (pluralhuri)
- man(clarification of this definition is needed.)
FromProto-Brythonic*hir, fromProto-Celtic*sīros. Cognate withWelshhir andBretonhir.
hir (comparativehirra,superlativean hirra)
- long
- tall
FromProto-Italic*hezor, fromProto-Indo-European*ǵʰésōr. Cognate withAncient Greekχείρ(kheír).
hir n sg (indeclinable,no genitive)
- (rare, anatomy)hand
Indeclinable noun (used only in the nominative and accusative), singular only.
- “hir”, inCharlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879),A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “hir”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
FromOld High Germanira, fromProto-Germanic*hezōi.
hir
- third-person feminine singular, dative:her, to her
- Ech schreiwenhir e Bréif
- I'm writingher a letter
hir
- third-person singular feminine possessive, feminine object, nominative:her
- third-person singular feminine possessive, plural object, nominative:her
- third-person singular feminine possessive, feminine object, accusative:her
- third-person singular feminine possessive, plural object, accusative:her
- third-person plural possessive, feminine object, nominative:their
- third-person plural possessive, plural object, nominative:their
- third-person plural possessive, feminine object, accusative:their
- third-person plural possessive, plural object, accusative:their
hir
- alternative form ofhire(“her”)
hir
- alternative form ofhire(“hers”)
hir
- alternative form ofhire(“her”)
hir
- alternative form ofhire(“wages”)
hīr
- singularimperative ofhīran
hir (first-person singular present indicativevou,past participlehido)
- obsolete spelling ofir
This verb needs aninflection-table template.
hȋr m inan (Cyrillic spellingхи̑р)
- whim,caprice
- Sve je samo hir - It's all just a whim
hir
- romanization of𒆟(ḫir)
FromMiddle Welsh andOld Welshhir, fromProto-Brythonic*hir, fromProto-Celtic*sīros.
hir (feminine singularhir,pluralhirion,equativecyhyd,comparativehwyorhirach,superlativehwyaforhiraf,not mutable)
- long
- Synonyms:hirfaith,llaes,maith
- Antonyms:byr,cwta
Mae gynni hi wallthir.- She haslong hair.
Roedd y daith ynhir iawn.- The journey was verylong.
hir
- h-prothesized form ofir
- R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “hir”, inGeiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies
