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Translingual

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Etymology

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Clipping of English Himachali.

Symbol

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him

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Himachali languages.

English

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Etymology

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    From Middle English him, from Old English him, from Proto-Germanic *himmai (“to this, to this one”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian him (“him”), West Frisian him (“him”), Sylt North Frisian ham, höm (“him”), Dutch hem (“him”), German Low German hum, hüm, em (“him”), German ihm (“him”, dative).

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    Pronoun

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    him (personal pronoun, objective case)

    1. A masculine pronoun; he as a grammatical object.
      1. With dative effect or as an indirect object. [from 9th c.]
      2. Following a preposition. [from 9th c.]
      3. With accusative effect or as a direct object. [from 12th c.]
    2. (colloquial, uncommon) As a grammatical subject or object when joined with a conjunction.
      Now him and Bernie are best friends.
      He released a [statement] warning that him and 25,000 troops were going to stage a coup.
    3. Used in isolation or apposition, or (sometimes proscribed) as the complement of the copula (be).
      Who was there? —Him.
      Who did this? —Him. He did it. (or:) It was him. He did it.)
      Who did that? —(It was) not him: I was watching him the whole time.
    4. (now rare) Used reflexively: (to) himself. [from 9th c.]
    5. With nominative effect: he, especially as a predicate after be, or following a preposition. [from 15th c.]
      • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene x]:
        Before my body, I throw my warlike Shield: Lay on Macduffe, And damn'd be him, that first cries hold, enough.
      • 2003 June 11, Claire Cozens, The Guardian:
        Lowe quit the West Wing last year amid rumours that he was unhappy that his co-stars earned more than him.
    7. (slang) A person of elevated skill at a sport, game, or other activity.
      Synonyms: that guy, that nigga
      Stop trying that, you're not him bro.
      Bro thinks he's him.
      • 2023, PLUMMCORP RECORDS, 0:33 from the start, in dracula flow 3‎[3]:
        They must have amnesia, they forgot that I'm him.
      • 2023 October 25, u/baggypantsman, “Super Mario 64 - 0 Star in 6:16 by Suigi”, in Reddit‎[4], r/speedrun, archived from the original on 23 December 2023:
        Watched this one live, he randomly got it less than an hour into the stream while derusting for PACE. He's just him.

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    Descendants

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    • Jamaican Creole: im
    • Pijin: hem
    • Pijin: -im

    Translations

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    English personal pronouns

    Dialectal and obsolete or archaic forms are in italics.

    personal pronoun possessive
    pronoun    		 possessive
    determiner
    subjective objective reflexive
    first
    person    		 singular I
    me (colloquial)    		 me myself
    me
    mysen    		 mine my
    mine (before vowels, archaic)
    me
    plural we us ourselves
    ourself
    oursen    		 ours
    ourn (obsolete outside dialects)    		 our
    second
    person    		 singular standard
    (historically
    formal)     		you you yourself
    yoursen    		 yours
    yourn (obsolete outside dialects)    		 your
    archaic
    (historically
    informal)     		thou thee thyself
    theeself
    thysen    		 thine thy
    thine (before vowels)
    plural standard you
    ye (archaic)    		 you yourselves yours
    yourn (obsolete outside dialects)    		 your
    colloquial you all
    y'all
    you guys
    yous    		 you all
    y'all
    you guys
    yous    		 y'allselves all yours
    y'all's
    you guys'
    your guys'    		 all your
    y'all's
    your all's (nonstandard)
    you guys'
    your guys'
    informal /
    dialectal     		(see list of dialectal forms at you and inflected forms in those entries)
    third
    person         		singular masculine he him himself
    hisself (archaic)
    hissen    		 his
    hisn (obsolete outside dialects)    		 his
    feminine she her herself
    hersen    		 hers
    hern (obsolete outside dialects)    		 her
    neuter it
    hit    		 it
    hit    		 itself
    hitself    		 its
    his (archaic)    		 its
    his (archaic)
    hits
    genderless1 they them themself, themselves theirs their
    nonspecific
    (formal)     		one one oneself – one's
    plural they them
    hem, 'em    		 themselves
    theirsen    		 theirs
    theirn (obsolete outside dialects)    		 their

    1 See Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns for attested neopronouns.

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    Noun

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    him (plural hims)

    1. (informal) A male person or animal.
      Synonym: he
      I think this bird is a him, but it may be a her.
      • 1985, Hélène Cixous, Sorties (translated)
        […] daring dizzying passages in other, fleeting and passionate dwellings within the hims and hers whom she inhabits […]
      • 2004, Tom Wolfe, I Am Charlotte Simmons: A Novel‎[5]:
        Both hims took a good look at him.
      • 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?”

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    Anagrams

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    Gayón

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    Noun

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    him

    1. water

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    • Luis Oramas, Materiales para el estudio de los dialectos Ayamán, Gayón, Jirajara, Ajagua (1916)

    Irish

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    Noun

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    him m

    1. h-prothesized form of im

    Luxembourgish

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    Pronoun

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    him

    1. third-person masculine singular, dative: him, to him
      Ech baken him e Kuch.
      I'm baking him a cake.
    2. third-person neuter singular, dative: her, to her; (rarely: it, to it)
      Hie war gëschter mat him am Kino.
      He went to the cinema with her yesterday.

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    • For the use of the neuter for referring to female persons, see hatt.

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    Luxembourgish personal pronouns
    nominative accusative dative reflexive
    stressed unstressed stressed unstressed stressed unstressed
    singular 1st person ech — mech — mir mer like dat. and acc.
    2nd person informal du de dech — dir der like dat. and acc.
    formal Dir Der Iech Iech [əɕ] Iech Iech [əɕ] Iech
    3rd person m hien en hien en him em sech
    f si se si se hir er sech
    n hatt et ('t) hatt et ('t) him em sech
    plural 1st person mir mer eis (ons) — eis (ons) — eis (ons)
    2nd person dir der iech iech [əɕ] iech iech [əɕ] iech
    3rd person si se si se hinnen en sech

    Middle English

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    Etymology 1

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      From Old English him. Originally a dative form; gradually displaced accusative hine.

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      Pronoun

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      him (nominative he)

      2. Third-person singular masculine pronoun indicating a grammatical object: him.
      3. (reflexive) himself.
      4. Third-person singular neuter pronoun indicating a grammatical object: it.
      5. (impersonal) Third-person singular neuter pronoun indicating a grammatical object one, you.
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      Middle English personal pronouns
      nominative accusative dative genitive possessive
      singular 1st person I, ich, ik me min
      mi1      		 min
      2nd person þou þe þin
      þi1      		 þin
      3rd person m he him
      hine2      		 him his his
      hisen
      f sche, heo hire
      heo       		hire hire
      hires, hiren
      n hit hit
      him2      		 his, hit —
      dual3 1st person wit unk unker
      2nd person ȝit inc inker
      plural 1st person we us, ous oure oure
      oures, ouren
      2nd person4 ye yow your your
      youres, youren
      3rd person inh. he hem
      he2      		 hem here here
      heres, heren
      bor. þei þem, þeim þeir þeir
      þeires, þeiren
      1 Used preconsonantally or before h.
      2 Early or dialectal.
      3 Dual pronouns are only sporadically found in Early Middle English; after that, they are replaced by plural forms. There are no third person dual forms in Middle English.
      4 Sometimes used as a formal 2nd person singular.
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      Etymology 2

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      Pronoun

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      him

      1. alternative form of hem (“them”)

      Mizo

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      Adjective

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      him

      1. safe
      2. unscathed

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      Adverb

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      him

      1. (dialectal) alternative form of heim

      Old English

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      him

      1. dative of hē: him
        • 10th century, The Wanderer:
          Swā cwæð snottor on mōde, · ġesæt him sundor æt rūne.
          So said the wise in mind, sat alone with speech to himself.
      2. dative of hit: it
      3. dative of hīe: them
        • late 9th century, translation of Bede's Ecclesiastical History
          Đyssum tidum Ongolcyningas þā æðelestan Ōswēo Norðanhymbra cyning ⁊ Eċġberht Contwarena cyning hæfdon betweoh him sprǣċe ⁊ ġeþēahte, hwæt tō donne wǣre bī þǣm stealle Ongolcynnes ċiriċan .
          At this time the most noble English kings, Oswiu of Northumbria and Ecgberht of Kent, held a discussion and conference between them about what was to be done about the state of the English church.

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      Old Frisian

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      him

      1. dative of hī; him
      2. dative of hit; it
      3. dative of hiā; them

      Declension

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      Old Frisian personal pronoun declensions
      nominative accusative dative genitive
      singular 1st person ik mī mī mīn
      2nd person thū thī thī thīn
      3rd
      person       		m hī hine him sīn
      f hiū, hiō hiā hire, hiāre hire, hiāre
      n hit hit him sīn
      plural 1st person wī ūs ūs ūser
      2nd person jī jū, jō jū, jō jūwer
      3rd person hiā hiā him, hirem, hiārem hira, hiāra

      O'odham

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      Etymology

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      From Proto-Tepiman *himïi (“to go”),[1] from Proto-Uto-Aztecan *sima (“to go”).[2]

      Verb

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      him (repetitive and distributive hihhim, plural hihim)

      1. to walk, move along, progress
        Begi, nt o hi꞉.
        Well, I'll be on my way.
      2. to pass, go (of time, opportunities, experiences, etc.)
      3. (with directional particles) to go in a specified direction
        'Am 'ant gvui vo hi꞉.
        I will go to him.
      4. to last (continue for a period)
        He'ekia 'i him g maşad taş?
        What day of the month is it?
        (literally, “How many days has the month lasted?”)

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      1. ^ Burton William Bascom, Jr. (1965), “66a. *ˈhimɨi 'to go,'”, in Proto-Tepiman (Tepehuan-Piman) (Thesis), Seattle, Washington: University of Washington, 66-5811, page 135
      2. ^ Stubbs, Brian D. (2020) [2011], “1011. *sima ‘go’”, in Uto-Aztecan: A comparative vocabulary‎[1], revised online edition, Flower Mound, Texas: Shumway Family History Services, page 191
      • Mathiot, Madeleine (2013), Tohono 'O'odham–English Dictionary‎[6], volume I, archived from the original on 22 November 2019, pages 261–6
      • Saxton, Dean; Saxton, Lucille; Enos, Susie (1983), “him”, in Dictionary: Tohono Oʼodham/Pima to English, English to Tohono Oʼodham/Pima, 2nd edition, Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, published 1998, →ISBN, page 22

      Saterland Frisian

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      Etymology

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      See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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      him

      1. oblique of hie; him

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      Saterland Frisian personal pronouns
      subject case object case
      stressed unstressed
      singular 1st iek mie
      2nd du die
      3rd m hie er him
      f ju ze hier
      n dät et dät
      plural 1st wie uus
      2nd jie jou
      3rd jo ze hier

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      • Marron C. Fort (2015), “him”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN

      Sursurunga

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      Verb

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      him

      1. to work

      Further reading

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      • Sursurunga Organised Phonology Data (2011)

      West Frisian

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      Etymology

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      From Old Frisian him, from Proto-Germanic *himmai.

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      him

      1. object of hy

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      Pronoun

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      him

      1. alternative form of ham
        • 1867, “SONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 108:
          Shoo zent him o' die.
          She sent him one day.
        • 1867, “SONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 6, page 108:
          Shoo zent him anoor die a gozleen to keep;
          She sent him another day the goslings to keep;

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      • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 108
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