Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗The form of she used after a preposition, as the object of a verb, or (colloquial) as a subject with a conjunction; that woman, that ship, etc, or (dialect) as a subject without a conjunction.
Belonging to her (belonging to that female person or animal, or in poetic or old-fashioned language that ship, city, season, etc). · Belonging to a person of unspecified gender (to counterbalance the traditional "his" in this sense).
A female person or animal.
From Middle English here, hir, hire, from Old English hire (“her”), from Proto-Germanic *hezōi (dative 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”).
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