hir

Blend of him/his +‎ her.

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

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."

• (singular) them
• (neologism) em, per

• him, her

• (neologism) hirself

hir

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.

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.

• (singular) their
• (neologism) eir

• his, her

• (neologism) hirs

• other attested and proposed gender-neutral pronouns

• IPA^(key): /hiːr/

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]

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

• hire
• hirës
• hirësi
• hirësisht
• hiroj

• hirmadh
• hirplotë

• hjir, hiru

From Latin fīlum. Compare Daco-Romanian fir.

hir n (plural hiri or hire)

1. thread

• hirush
• nhiric

• nhir

• jir

• IPA^(key): /hir/

hir

1. man

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

hir

1. long

• berr

hir (plural huri)

1. man (clarification of this definition is needed)

• ir

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

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /hir/, [hɪr]

hir n (indeclinable)

1. (rare, anatomy) hand

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

• (hand): manus

• 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

• IPA^(key): /hiːʀ/, [ˈhiː.ɐ], [hiə̯]
• Homophone: hier

hir

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

   Ech schreiwen hir e Bréif

   I'm writing her a letter

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

hir

1. Alternative form of hire

hir

1. Alternative form of hire

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

hir

1. Alternative form of hire

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

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

1. Obsolete spelling of ir

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

• IPA^(key): /xîːr/

hȋr m (Cyrillic spelling хи̑р)

1. whim, caprice

• IPA^(key): /hiːr/

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

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.

• hirfaith
• llaes
• maith

Mutation of ir (“raw”).

hir

1. h-prothesized form of ir