Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗That or those belonging to him; the possessive case of he, used without a following noun. · His house or home. · Alternative spelling of His.
Belonging to him. · Belonging to a person of unspecified gender. · Its; belonging to it. (Now only when implying personification.) · Used as a genitive marker in place of ’s after a noun, especially a masculine noun ending in -s, to express the possessive case.
From Middle English hes, from Old English his (“his; its”), from Proto-Germanic *hes (“of this”), genitive of Proto-Germanic *hiz (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this”). Cognate with Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic hans (“his”). More at he; see also its.
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