she
Part of speech: pron
noun
verb
det
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: Inherited from Middle English sche, scho, hyo, ȝho (“she”), whence also Yorkshire dialectal shoo (“she”), Scots she, sho (“she”).
Probably from Old English hēo (whence dialectal English hoo), with an irregular change in stress from hēo to heō /hjoː/, then a development from /hj-/ to /ç/ to /ʃ-/, similar to the derivation of Shetland from Old Norse Hjaltland. In this case, she is from Proto-West Germanic *hiju, from Proto-Germanic *hijō f (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this, here”), and is cognate with Saterland Frisian jo, ju, West Frisian hja, North Frisian jü, Danish hun, Swedish hon; more at he.
A derivation from Old English sēo (“that one”, occasionally “she”) is also possible, though less likely. In that case, sēo would have undergone a change in stress from sēo to seō /sjoː/, then a change from /sj-/ to /ʃ-/, similar to the derivation of sure from Old French seur. It would then be cognate to Dutch zij and German sie.
Neither etymology would be expected to yield the modern vocalism in /iː/ (the expected form would be shoo, which is in fact found dialectally). It may be due to influence from he, but both hēo and sēo also have rare variants (hīe and sīe) that may give modern English /iː/.
Inflected forms:
form: her
pos: pron
tags: oblique
possessive
form: hers
pos: pron
tags: possessive
form: herself
pos: pron
tags: reflexive
form: shoo
pos: pron
tags: alternative
form: hoo
pos: pron
tags: alternative
form: shee
pos: pron
tags: alternative
form: shes
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: The female (typically) person or animal previously mentioned or implied.
pos: pron
tags: feminine
nominative
personal
singular
third-person
examples: I asked Mary, but she said that she didn't know.
After the cat killed a mouse, she left it on our doorstep.
She seems a clever girl, your Isabel.
Goodly she entertaind those noble knights, / And brought them vp into her castle hall […]
The mother, Ekaterina Pavlovna, who at one time had been handsome, but now, asthmatic, depressed, vague, and over-feeble for her years, tried to entertain me with conversation about painting. Having heard from her daughter that I might come to Shelkovka, she had hurriedly recalled two or three of my landscapes which she had seen in exhibitions in Moscow, and now asked what I meant to express by them.
His family, who live in West Des Moines, Iowa, have been left “devastated,” his owner Tracy Wolfe said in GWR press release. “He was just the best giant boy,” she added.
Morgan Sanner, a 27-year-old human resources worker in Ohio, told New York magazine’s The Cut that she felt inspired to follow in the footsteps of other people — who she noticed were “taking significant breaks” from their careers — after going abroad for the first time.
gloss: A ship or boat.
pos: pron
tags: endearing
feminine
nominative
personal
singular
sometimes
third-person
examples: She could do forty knots in good weather.
She is a beautiful boat, isn’t she?
The tanker is 25 years old but she is still very seaworthy.
On the long 1 in 100 ascent from Staveley to Heath she nearly stalled, and having taken 67¼ min. to cover the 38.2 miles to Nottingham instead of the 51 min. scheduled she gave up the ghost, and came off the train.
gloss: A country, or sometimes a city, province, planet, etc.
pos: pron
tags: dated
endearing
feminine
nominative
personal
singular
sometimes
third-person
examples: She is a poor place, but has beautiful scenery and friendly people.
gloss: A thing, especially a machine or other object, such as a car, a computer, or (poetically) a season.
pos: pron
tags: dated
endearing
feminine
nominative
personal
poetic
singular
third-person
examples: She only gets thirty miles to the gallon on the highway, but she’s durable.
Prodigal in everything, summer spreads her blessings with lavish unconcern, and waving her magic wand across the landscape of the world, she bids the sons of men to enter in and possess. Summer is the great consummation.
She is my 57 Chevy / My 57 Chevy runs so fine / No one can beat my 57 Chevy
The car’s engine revved up, and the back wheels screeched. Then she lurched forward at terrific speed.
gloss: A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant (used in a work, along with or in place of he, as an indefinite pronoun).
pos: pron
tags: feminine
nominative
nonstandard
personal
singular
third-person
examples: Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen. For a child, it could be placing with trembling fingers the last block on a tower she has built, higher than any she has built so far; for a swimmer, it could be trying to beat his own record; for a violinist, mastering an intricate musical passage.
gloss: A female.
pos: noun
examples: Pat is definitely a she.
Come, come, we know very well what all the matter is; but if one won’t, another will; so pretty a gentleman need never want a lady. I am sure, if I was you, I would see the finest she that ever wore a head hanged, before I would go for a soldier for her.
And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare / As any she belied with false compare.
he came home to find […] honest Swartz in her favourite amber-coloured satin, with turquoise bracelets, countless rings, flowers, feathers, and all sorts of tags and gimcracks, about as elegantly decorated as a she chimney-sweep on May-day.
“They were all hairy-faced bulls but one,” he said, “and that one was a she, lighter in color even than this stranger,” and he chucked a thumb at Tarzan.
“Then,” I said, much amused, “you think that if you were mixed up in a crime, say a murder, you’d be able to spot the murderer right off?” “Of course I should. Mightn’t be able to prove it to a pack of lawyers. But I’m certain I’d know. I’d feel it in my fingertips if he came near me.” “It might be a ‘she’,” I suggested.
Plucked her eyebrows on the way / Shaved her legs and then he was a she
A world where the hes are so much more common than the shes can hardly be seen as a welcoming place for women.
gloss: To refer to (someone) using she/her pronouns.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: If somebody wants to go by “he,” continually “sheing” them [is invalidating].
In his conversation with the woman, Ari would 'he' himself using the masculine pronoun and she would reply by consistently 'she'''ing' him. Such examples share something about the emotional quality of language[…]
gloss: Synonym of her.
pos: det
Related words: she-
Ime
me
myselfmemysen
mine
mymineme
we
us
ourselvesourselfoursen
oursourn
our
you
yourselfyoursen
yoursyourn
your
thou
thee
thyselftheeselfthysen
thine
thythine
youye
yourselves
you ally'all you guys yous
y'allselves
all yours y'all's you guys' your guys'
all your y'all's your all's you guys' your guys'
he
him
himselfhisselfhissen
hishisn
his
her
herselfhersen
hershern
ithit
itselfhitself
itshis
itshishits
they
them
themself
themselves
theirs
their
one
oneself
–
one's
themhem
'em
themselvestheirsen
theirstheirn
The following table shows a list of English personal pronoun
including archaic and dialectal forms. Dialectal and obsolete
archaic forms are in italics. 1 See Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns for attested neopronoun.
Derived words: as she is spoke
go tell your mother she wants you
he-ing and she-ing
he or she
heorshe
he-said-she-said
he-she
M-She-U
sheanderthal
she-ape
shebeast
she bitch
sheboon
she-buffalo
shecession
sheconomy
she-E-O
she-he
she-lion
shemale
she-ogre
she or he
sherilla
shero
sheroic
sheself
she shed
She-She-She Camp
She-Type
shim
shis
steady as she goes
steady-as-she-goes
supershero
thar she blows
that's all she wrote
that's what she said
there she blows
Translations:
lang: Abkhaz
word: лара
roman: lara
lang: Afar
word: is
lang: Afrikaans
word: sy
lang: Akan
word: ɔno
lang: Albanian
word: ajo
lang: Southern Altai
word: ол
roman: ol
lang: Amharic
word: እሷ
roman: ʾəssʷa
lang: Arabic
word: هِيَ
roman: hiya
lang: Chadian Arabic
word: هي
roman: hī
lang: Arabic
word: هي
roman: heyya
lang: Arabic
word: هي
roman: hiyya
lang: Arabic
word: هي
roman: hiyye
lang: Aragonese
word: ella
lang: Assyrian Neo-Aramaic
word: ܗܲܝ
roman: hay
lang: Aramaic
word: הי
roman: hī
lang: Aramaic
word: ܗܝ
roman: hī
lang: Western Neo-Aramaic
word: ܗܝܗ
roman: hīh
lang: Armenian
word: նա
roman: na
lang: Aromanian
word: ea
lang: Aromanian
word: ia
lang: Aromanian
word: nãsã
lang: Aromanian
word: nãsa
lang: Assamese
word: তাই
roman: tai
lang: Assamese
word: এই
roman: ei
lang: Assamese
word: তেওঁ
roman: teü̃
lang: Assamese
word: এওঁ
roman: eü̃
lang: Asturian
word: ella
lang: Aymara
word: jupa
lang: Azerbaijani
word: o
lang: Bambara
word: a
lang: Bashkir
word: ул
roman: ul
lang: Basque
word: bera
lang: Basque
word: hura
lang: Belarusian
word: яна́
roman: janá
lang: Bengali
word: সে
roman: śe
lang: Bengali
word: আপনি
roman: apni
lang: Central Bikol
word: siya
lang: Bouyei
word: deel
lang: Breton
word: hi
lang: Bulgarian
word: тя
roman: tja
lang: Burmese
word: သူမ
roman: suma.
lang: Burmese
word: သူ
roman: su
lang: Carpathian Rusyn
word: она́
roman: oná
lang: Catalan
word: ella
lang: Chichewa
word: iye
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 佢
roman: keoi⁵
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 她
roman: ta¹
lang: Chinese Cantonese
word: 姖
roman: keoi⁵
lang: Chinese
word: та
roman: ta
lang: Eastern Min Chinese
word: 伊
roman: ĭ
lang: Hakka Chinese
word: 佢
roman: kì, yì
lang: Chinese
word: 伊
roman: zh-min-nan
lang: Jin Chinese
word: 她
roman: ta¹
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 她
roman: tā
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 他
roman: tā
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 伊
roman: yī
lang: Teochew
word: 伊
roman: i¹
lang: Wu Chinese
word: 伊
lang: Chuvash
word: вӑл
roman: văl
lang: Ngazidja Comorian
word: ye
lang: Cornish
word: hi
lang: Corsican
word: ella
lang: Corsican
word: edda
lang: Czech
word: ona
lang: Dalmatian
word: jala
lang: Danish
word: hun
lang: Dutch
word: zij
lang: Egyptian
word: s
roman: .s
lang: Egyptian
word: s-y
roman: sj
lang: Egyptian
word: s-t:t
roman: stt
lang: Egyptian
word: n:t-s
roman: nts
lang: Egyptian
word: ti-i
roman: .tj
lang: Emilian
word: lî
lang: Erzya
word: сон
roman: son
lang: Esperanto
word: ŝi
lang: Estonian
word: tema
lang: Ewe
word: eya
lang: Fala
word: ela
lang: Faroese
word: hon
lang: Fijian
word: koya
lang: Finnish
word: hän
lang: Finnish
word: se
lang: French
word: elle
lang: Old French
word: ele
lang: West-Frisian
word: hja
lang: West-Frisian
word: sy
lang: Friulian
word: jê
lang: Galician
word: ela
lang: Georgian
word: ის
roman: is
lang: German
word: sie
lang: Greek
word: αυτή
roman: aftí
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἥδε
roman: hḗde
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἐκείνη
roman: ekeínē
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἡ
roman: hē
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἥ
roman: hḗ
lang: Greenlandic
word: una
lang: Mbya Guarani
word: ha'e
lang: Hausa
word: ’ítá
lang: Havasupai-Walapai-Yavapai
word: nyihá
lang: Hawaiian
word: ia
lang: Hebrew
word: הִיא
roman: hi
lang: Hindi
word: वह
roman: vah
lang: Hindi
word: यह
roman: yah
lang: White Hmong
word: nws
lang: Hopi
word: pam
lang: Hungarian
word: ő
lang: Icelandic
word: hún
lang: Ido
word: el
lang: Ido
word: elu
lang: Indonesian
word: dia
lang: Indonesian
word: ia
lang: Ingrian
word: hää
lang: Interlingua
word: illa
lang: Irish
word: sí
lang: Irish
word: í
lang: Old Irish
word: sí
lang: Istriot
word: gila
lang: Italian
word: lei
lang: Italian
word: ella
lang: Japanese
word: 彼女
roman: kanojo
lang: Japanese
word: あの人
roman: ano hito
lang: Japanese
word: あの方
roman: ano kata
lang: Japanese
word: 奴
roman: yatsu
lang: Javanese
word: dhèwèké
lang: Javanese
word: piyambakipun
lang: Judeo-Italian
word: אֵיסַה
lang: Kabuverdianu
word: el
lang: Kannada
word: ಇವಳು
roman: ivaḷu
lang: Kannada
word: ಅವಳು
roman: avaḷu
lang: Karakhanid
word: اُلْ
roman: ol
lang: Karelian
word: häi
lang: Kashubian
word: òna
lang: Kazakh
word: ол
roman: ol
lang: Khakas
word: ол
roman: ol
lang: Khmer
word: គាត់
roman: kŏət
lang: Khmer
word: នាង
roman: niəng
lang: Khmer
word: អ្នកស្រី
roman: nĕək srəy
lang: Khmer
word: លោកស្រី
roman: look srəy
lang: Khmer
word: ព្រះនាង
roman: prĕəh niəng
lang: Khmer
word: ទ្រង់
roman: trŭəng
lang: Korean
word: 그녀
roman: geunyeo
lang: Korean
word: 그
roman: geu
lang: Korean
word: 이분
roman: ibun
lang: Kyrgyz
word: ал
roman: al
lang: Ladin
word: ëila
lang: Lao
word: ເຂົາ
roman: khao
lang: Latgalian
word: jei
lang: Latgalian
word: šei
lang: Latin
word: ea
lang: Latin
word: illa
lang: Latin
word: haec
lang: Latvian
word: viņa
lang: Limburgish
word: het
lang: Limburgish
word: ze
lang: Lingala
word: yě
lang: Linngithigh
word: lu
lang: Lithuanian
word: ji
lang: Louisiana Creole
word: li
lang: Low German
word: sei
lang: Low German
word: se
lang: Macedonian
word: таа
roman: taa
lang: Malay
word: dia
lang: Malay
word: ia
lang: Maltese
word: hi
lang: Manx
word: ee
lang: Māori
word: ia
lang: Mazanderani
word: وه
roman: ve
lang: Central Sierra Miwok
word: hís·ak
lang: Mòcheno
word: si
lang: Moksha
word: сон
roman: son
lang: Mongolian
word: тэр
roman: ter
lang: Motu
word: ia
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: hun
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: ho
lang: Occitan
word: ela
lang: Old Occitan
word: ella
lang: Ojibwe
word: wiin
lang: Church Slavic
word: она
roman: ona
lang: Old East Slavic
word: она
roman: ona
lang: Old English
word: hēo
lang: Old Galician-Portuguese
word: ela
lang: Ossetian
word: уый
roman: wyj
lang: Pannonian Rusyn
word: вона
roman: vona
lang: Pashto
word: هغه
roman: haǧë
lang: Pashto
word: دا
roman: dā
lang: Pela
word: jɔ̃³¹
lang: Dari
word: او
roman: ō
lang: Dari
word: وَی
roman: way
lang: Iranian Persian
word: او
roman: u
lang: Iranian Persian
word: وِی
roman: vey
lang: Iranian Persian
word: اوی
roman: uy
lang: Piedmontese
word: chila
lang: Pipil
word: yaja
lang: Pipil
word: yaha
lang: Pirahã
word: hi
lang: Pitjantjatjara
word: ngaa
lang: Pitjantjatjara
word: pala
lang: Pitjantjatjara
word: nyara
lang: Pitjantjatjara
word: palunya
lang: Polish
word: ona
lang: Portuguese
word: ela
lang: Quechua
word: pay
lang: Rapa Nui
word: ia
lang: Romani
word: oj
lang: Kalo Finnish Romani
word: joi
lang: Vlax-Romani
word: voj
lang: Romanian
word: dumneaei
lang: Romanian
word: ea
lang: Romansh
word: ella
lang: Russian
word: она́
roman: oná
lang: Inari-Sami
word: sun
lang: Kildin-Sami
word: со̄нн
roman: sōnn
lang: Lule-Sami
word: sån
lang: Northern Sami
word: son
lang: Skolt-Sami
word: son
lang: Southern Sami
word: dïhte
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: i (nonemphatic)
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: ise
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: о̀на
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: òna
lang: Sicilian
word: idda
lang: Sidamo
word: ise
lang: Sinhalese
word: ඈ
roman: ǣ
lang: Slovak
word: ona
lang: Slovene
word: ôna
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: wóna
lang: Upper Sorbian
word: wona
lang: Spanish
word: ella
lang: Swahili
word: yeye
lang: Swedish
word: hon
lang: Sylheti
word: ꠔꠣꠁ
roman: tai
lang: Sylheti
word: ꠔꠣꠁꠘ
roman: tain
lang: Tagalog
word: siya
lang: Tajik
word: ӯ
roman: ü
lang: Taos
word: ą́wąną
lang: Tatar
word: ул
roman: ul
lang: Telugu
word: ఆమె
roman: āme
lang: Thai
word: เขา
roman: kǎo
lang: Thai
word: เธอ
roman: təə
lang: Thai
word: หล่อน
roman: lɔ̀n
lang: Tigrinya
word: ንሳ
roman: nəsa
lang: Tlingit
word: hú
lang: Tooro
word: uwe
lang: Tupinambá
word: a'e
lang: Turkish
word: o
lang: Turkmen
word: ol
lang: Udmurt
word: со
roman: so
lang: Ugaritic
word: 𐎅𐎊
roman: hy
lang: Ukrainian
word: вона́
roman: voná
lang: Unami
word: nàni
lang: Urdu
word: وہ
roman: voh
lang: Urdu
word: یہ
roman: yeh
lang: Uyghur
word: ئۇ
roman: u
lang: Uzbek
word: u
lang: Venetan
word: eła
lang: Vietnamese
word: chị ấy
lang: Vietnamese
word: cô ấy
lang: Vietnamese
word: bà ấy
lang: Vietnamese
word: nó
lang: Volapük
word: of
lang: Walloon
word: ele
lang: Walloon
word: elle
lang: Walloon
word: leye
lang: Welsh
word: hi
lang: Wolof
word: moom
lang: Yámana
word: kitu
lang: Yiddish
word: זי
roman: zi
lang: Yoruba
word: ó
lang: Yoruba
word: á
lang: Yucatec Maya
word: letiʼ
lang: Zazaki
word: a (diq)
lang: Zhuang
word: de
lang: Zulu
word: yena
lang: Zulu
word: wona
lang: Zulu
word: lona
lang: Zulu
word: sona
lang: Zulu
word: yona
lang: Zulu
word: lona
lang: ǃKung
word: ha
lang: ǃXóõ
word: èh
lang: ǃXóõ
word: èhʻè
lang: ǃXóõ
word: ã`h
lang: ǃXóõ
word: ã̀hʻã̀