her

• herė

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhɜː(ɹ)/, unstressed IPA^(key): /ə(ɹ)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhɝ/, unstressed IPA^(key): /ɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)

From Middle English here, hir, hire, from Old English hiere (“her”), from Proto-Germanic *hezōi (dative and genitive singular of *hijō). Cognate with North Frisian hör, Saterland Frisian hier, hiere (“her”), West Frisian har (“her”), Dutch haar (“her”), German Low German hör (“her”), German ihr (“her”).

her

1. Belonging to her.

   This is her book

her

1. The form of she used after a preposition or as the object of a verb; that woman, that ship, etc.

   Give it to her (after preposition)

   He wrote her a letter (indirect object)

   He treated her for a cold (direct object)

   • February 1896, Ground-swells, by Jeannette H. Walworth, published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine; page 183:

     "Then what became of her?"

     "Her? Which ‘her’? The park is full of ‘hers’."

     "The lady with the green feathers in her hat. A big Gainsborough hat. I am quite sure it was Miss Hartuff."

her (plural hers)

1. (informal) A female person or animal.

   I think this bird is a him, but it may be a her.

   • Hélène Cixous

     […] daring dizzying passages in other, fleeting and passionate dwellings within the hims and hers whom she inhabits […]

   • 2004, Charles J. Sullivan, Love and Survival (page 68)

     By this time, she had so many questions, but she only hit him up for one answer about those “hims” and “hers.” She asked, “Do both hims and hers reproduce hummers?”

• she

• EHR, HRE, reh

• heru, hjeru

From Latin ferrum. Compare Daco-Romanian fier, Spanish hierro.

her n (plural heari / heare)

1. iron

• hirar

her

1. Mixed mutation of ger.

From Old Norse hér.

her

1. here

• herefter
• herfra
• herhen
• hermed
• herved
• herover

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her

1. here

• Not in common usage, "hier" is rather used. "her" is only used in expressions like the ones below.

• her en der: here and there, hither and thither (her en der verspreid: scattered all over the place)
• van hot naar her: from pillar to post, here, there and everywhere

From Old Norse hér.

her

1. here

From Old High German hera. Coognate to her.

• IPA^(key): [heːɐ̯]

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• Homophones: Heer, hehr
• Rhymes: -eːɐ̯

her

1. hither, to this place, to here, to me/us
2. ago

• hin

• heran
• heraus
• herbei
• herüber
• hierher
• woher

• her-

• her in Duden online

hēr

1. Romanization of 𐌷𐌴𐍂

From Old Norse herr.

• IPA^(key): /hɛːr/
• Rhymes: -ɛːr

her m (genitive singular hers, nominative plural herir)

1. army, military

• herbragð
• hergögn
• herkvaðning
• hermaður
• herstígvél
• þú og hvaða her

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *sárwas.

her

1. every, each
2. anyone
3. anyway

From hieër

her m

1. vocative singular of hieër

From Old English hǣr, from Proto-Germanic *hērą.

• hair, herre, hare, hore, hær, hor, heere, here, haire

• IPA^(key): /hɛːr/, /heːr/

her (plural heres)

1. (countable) A hair (follicular growth on the skin)

   • a. 1382, John Wycliffe, “Apocalips 1:14”, in Wycliffe's Bible:

     And the heed of hym and his heeris weren whijt, as whijt wolle, and as snow; and the iȝen of hym as flawme of fier.

     And his head and his hairs were white, as white wool, and like snow, and his eyes were like fire's flame.

2. (uncountable) hair (follicular growths on the skin)

   • a. 1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Knight's Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, line 3690-3691:

     But first he cheweth greyn and lycorys / To smellen sweete, er he hadde kembd his heer.

     Though first he chews spices and licorice, / To smell sweet before he'd combed his hair.

3. A hairy animal skin; a pelt or a product made of it.
4. Something similar in appearance to hair (e.g. a botanical hair)
5. (figuratively) A small part; any part (of a person)

• hery

• English: hair
• Scots: hair, hayr, hare

• “hēr (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-16.

From Old English hiera, from Proto-Germanic *hezōi.

her

1. Alternative form of hire

her

1. Alternative form of hire

• “hir, (pron.1)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 May 2018.

her

1. Alternative form of hire

• “hir(e), pron (2)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 10 June 2018.

her

1. Alternative form of here

• “her(e (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 12 June 2018.

her

1. her: third-person singular, feminine, objective
2. her: third-person singular, feminine, possesive

From Old Norse hér.

• IPA^(key): /hæːr/

her

1. here

• herfra, herifra

• “her” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /hæːr/, /heːr/
• Homophone: hær

From Old Norse hér.

her

1. here

   Det er fint å vera her.

   It's nice to be here.

2. just now, recently

   Eg såg ho her ein dag.

   I saw her just the other day.

her m (definite singular heren, indefinite plural herar, definite plural herane)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by hær

• “her” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

• IPA^(key): /heːr/

From Proto-Germanic *hē₂r, apparently from the stem *hi- ‘this’; the exact formation is unclear. Cognate with Old Saxon hēr, Old High German hiar, Old Norse hér, Gothic 𐌷𐌴𐍂 (her).

hēr

1. here

   Hēr iċ eom!

   Here I am!

• Middle English: her, here, heer
  • Scots: her, here
  • English: here

From Proto-Germanic *hērą, from Proto-Indo-European *keres- (“rough hair, bristle”). Cognate with Old Saxon hār, Dutch haar, Old High German hār (German Haar), Old Norse hár (Swedish hår).

hēr n

1. Alternative form of hǣr

From Proto-Germanic *hairaz.

hēr

1. gray-haired, old
2. noble, venerable

• Middle High German: hēr
  • German: hehr
• ⇒ Old High German: hērro (“lord”, comp.), hēriro, hēro
  • Middle High German: herre
    • Alemannic German: Heer
    • Central Franconian:

      Hunsrik: Herr, hër

    • German: Herr
    • Rhine Franconian:

      Pennsylvania German: Harr

    • Yiddish: הער‎ (her)
  • → Old Saxon: hērro
    • Middle Low German: hēre, herre
      • Low German: her, harr
    • → Old English: hearra, heorra, herra, hierra
      • Middle English: herre, harre
    • → Old Frisian: hēra, hōra
      • Saterland Frisian: heere
      • West Frisian: hearre
    • → Old Norse: herra, herri
      • Icelandic: herri
      • Faroese: harra, harri
      • Norwegian:
        • Norwegian Bokmål: herre
        • Norwegian Nynorsk: herre
      • Swedish: herre
      • Danish: herre
      • Gutnish: herre
      • → Finnish: herra
      • Westrobothnian: harr, häärr
  • → Old Dutch: hērro, hēro
    • Middle Dutch: hêre
      • Dutch: heer
        • Afrikaans: heer
      • Limburgish: hieër

From Proto-Germanic *hiz.

hēr

1. (northern dialects) Alternative form of er

• Middle High German: hër, he
  • Central Franconian:
    • Moselle Franconian: ä, en (from the accusative)
      • Eifelisch: hän, hen, en
      • Luxembourgish: hien, en
    • Ripuarian:
      • Kölsch: hä, ä
  • East Central German:
    • Lusatian-New Marchian: hä
    • Thuringian:
      • North Thuringian: he, hä
  • Rhine Franconian:
    • Hessian:
      • Low Hessian: he, hä
      • South Hessian: he
  • Vilamovian: hār

Borrowed from Persian هر‎ (har). Cognate with Latin salvus (“safe, whole”), Ancient Greek ὅλος (hólos, “complete, whole”).

her

1. every
2. each

her (plural hers)

1. hair

• IPA^(key): /hɛr/

her f (plural heriau)

1. challenge

Related to Persian هر‎ (har).

her

1. each

Related to Persian خر‎ (xar).

her ?

1. donkey