Luxembourgish

Noun

Hir n ‎(plural Hiren)

1. brain (as food/meat)

English

Pronoun

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

1. (neologism) them (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular object pronoun, coordinate with him and her.
   • 1988, Carver, Jeffrey, From a Changeling Star, New York: Bantam Books, ISBN 0-553-27639-5, OL 7824150M, 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, Sullivan, Caitlin; Bornstein, Kate, Nearly Roadkill: an Infobahn erotic adventure, New York: Serpent's Tail, ISBN 978-1852424183, LCCN 95072971, OL 820831M, 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, Bornstein, Kate, My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely, London, New York: Routledge, ISBN 978-0415916738, LCCN 98134184, OL 7495768M, 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, David, Peter, Renaissance (Star Trek New Frontier: Excalibur #10), Simon & Schuster, ISBN 978-0671042394, LCCN 2002555412, OL 3665551M, 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

Adjective

hir ‎(not comparable)

1. (neologism) Belonging to hir, their (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular possessive adjective, coordinate with his and her.
   • 1988, Carver, Jeffrey, From a Changeling Star, New York: Bantam Books, ISBN 0-553-27639-5, OL 7824150M, 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, Sullivan, Caitlin; Bornstein, Kate, Nearly Roadkill: an Infobahn erotic adventure, New York: Serpent's Tail, ISBN 9781852424183, LCCN 95072971, OL 820831M, 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, Schaap, Frank, The Words That Took Us There: Ethnography in a Virtual Reality, Amsterdam: Aksant Academic Publishers, ISBN 9055891991, OL 17062341M, 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, Wright, Susan, Slave Trade (Slave Trade Trilogy #1), Pocket Books, ISBN 0743466853, OL 3283799M, page 17:

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

   • 2011 March 29, Norton, Jody, “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 9780472071463, 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, Wickham, Ken, The Other Genders: Androgyne, Genderqueer, Non-Binary Gender Variant, CreateSpace, ISBN 9781461136620, 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.

Synonyms

• (singular) their
• (neologism) eir

Hyponyms

• his, her

Derived terms

• (neologism) hirs

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.

See also

• other attested and proposed gender-neutral pronouns

Albanian

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *skīra-. Cognate to Gothic 𐍃𐌺𐌴𐌹𐍂𐍃 ‎(skeirs, “clear”), Slavic *ščirь 'clean'^[1], and with Ancient Greek ἱερός ‎(hierós, “holy”) and Oscan aisusis ‎(“sacrifice”)^[2].

Noun

hir m

1. grace, blessing, goodwill

References

1. ↑ Orel, Vladimir (1998), “hir”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, page 148
2. ↑ Bardhyl Demiraj, Albanische Etymologien (Amsterdam: Rodopoi, 1997), p.201

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• hjir, hiru

Etymology

From Latin filum. Compare Daco-Romanian fir.

Noun

hir n (plural hiri/hire)

1. thread

Derived terms

• hirush
• nhiric

Baure

Alternative forms

• jir

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hir/

Noun

hir

1. man

Breton

Etymology

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

Adjective

hir

1. long

Antonyms

• berr

Latin

Alternative forms

• ir

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /hir/, [hɪr]

Noun

hir n ‎(indeclinable)

1. (rare, anatomy) hand

Declension

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

Synonyms

• (hand): manus

References

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

Luxembourgish

Pronoun

hir

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

   Ech schreiwen hir e Bréif

   I'm writing her a letter

Declension

Middle English

Alternative forms

• hire

Pronoun

hir

1. (possessive) her (belonging to a female person)

Descendants

• English: her

Portuguese

Verb

hir

1. Obsolete spelling of ir

Conjugation

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Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xîːr/

Noun

hȋr m ‎(Cyrillic spelling хи̑р)

1. whim, caprice

Declension

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)

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

Etymology 2

Mutation of ir ‎(“raw”).

Adjective

hir

1. h-prothesized form of ir

Mutation