hir

Etymology

Blend of him/his +‎ her.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /hɪə(ɹ)/
• (US) enPR: hēr, IPA^(key): /hiɹ/
• Homophones: here, hear

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, 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, 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, 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, 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."

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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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.

See also

• other attested and proposed gender-neutral pronouns

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hiːr/

Etymology

From Proto-Albanian *skīra, from Proto-Indo-European *sḱiH-ro- (“to dim, shimmer”) (compare German schier ‘pure, clear’, Polish szczery ‘sincere, earnest’, Ancient Greek σκῖρον (skîron) ‘parasol’).^[1]

Noun

hir m (indefinite plural hire, definite singular hiri, definite plural hiret)

1. kindness, favor, sake
2. willingness, goodwill
3. beauty, grace, charm, dignity
4. (religious) heavenly grace

References

Alternative forms

• hjir, hiru

Etymology

From Latin fīlum. Compare Daco-Romanian fir.

Noun

hir n (plural hiri/hire)

1. thread

Alternative forms

• jir

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hir/

Noun

hir

1. man

Etymology

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

Adjective

hir

1. long

Noun

hir (plural huri)

1. man (clarification of this definition is needed)

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

References

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hiːə̯/

Pronoun

hir

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

   Ech schreiwen hir e Bréif

   I'm writing her a letter

Pronoun

hir

1. third-person singular feminine possessive, feminine object, nominative: her
2. third-person singular feminine possessive, plural object, nominative: her
3. third-person singular feminine possessive, feminine object, accusative: her
4. third-person singular feminine possessive, plural object, accusative: her
5. third-person plural possessive, feminine object, nominative: their
6. third-person plural possessive, plural object, nominative: their
7. third-person plural possessive, feminine object, accusative: their
8. third-person plural possessive, plural object, accusative: their

Etymology 1

Etymology 2

Verb

hir (first-person singular present indicative vou, past participle hido)

1. Obsolete spelling of ir

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xîːr/

Noun

hȋr m (Cyrillic spelling хи̑р)

1. whim, caprice

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hiːr/

Etymology 1

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

Etymology 2

Mutation of ir (“raw”).