different between him vs hym

English

Etymology

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).

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) enPR: h?m, IPA^(key): /?h?m/, unstressed IPA^(key): /?m/, [??m]
• Rhymes: -?m
• Homophone: hymn,'em for unstressed in some pronunciations.

Pronoun

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.]
      • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula:

        ‘I promise,’ he said as I gave him the papers.

   2. Following a preposition. [from 9th c.]
      • 1813, Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice:

        She was in no humour for conversation with anyone but himself; and to him she had hardly courage to speak.

   3. With accusative effect or as a direct object. [from 12th c.]
      • 1853, Charles Dickens, Bleak House:

        ‘He's got it buttoned in his breast. I saw him put it there.’

2. (now rare) Used reflexively: (to) himself. [from 9th c.]
   • 1526, William Tyndale, trans. Bible, Acts XII:

     Apon a daye apoynted, the kynge arayed hym in royall apparell, and set hym in his seate, and made an oracion unto them.

   • 1765, Oliver Goldsmith, The traveller, or, A prospect of society

     Though poor the peasant’s hut, his feasts though small,

     He sees his little lot the lot of all;

     [...]

     But calm, and bred in ignorance and toil,

     Each wish contracting, fits him to the soil.

3. With nominative effect: he, especially as a predicate after be, or following a preposition. [from 15th c.]
   • c. 1616, William Shakespeare, Macbeth, First Folio 1623, V.10:

     Before my body, I throw my warlike Shield: Lay on Macduffe, And damn'd be him, that first cries hold, enough.

   • 2003, Claire Cozens, The Guardian, 11 Jun 2003:

     Lowe quit the West Wing last year amid rumours that he was unhappy that his co-stars earned more than him.

4. Alternative letter-case form of Him

Descendants

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

Translations

See also

See also

• he
• his
• her
• them

Noun

him (plural hims)

1. (informal) A male person or animal.
   • 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

     Both hims took a good look at him.

Synonyms

• he

Anagrams

• HMI

Gayón

Noun

him

1. water

References

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

Irish

Noun

him m

1. h-prothesized form of im

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /him/

Pronoun

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.

Usage notes

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

Declension

Middle English

Etymology 1

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

Alternative forms

• himm, hym, im, ym, hem, hime, hyme

Pronoun

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.

Descendants

• English: him

See also

References

• “him, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 6 May 2018.

Etymology 2

Pronoun

him

1. Alternative form of hem (“them”)

Mizo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /him/

Adjective

him

1. safe
2. unscathed

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hi?m/

Adverb

him

1. (dialectal) alternative form of heim

Old English

Alternative forms

• hym, heom, eom

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /him/

Pronoun

him

1. dative of h?: him
2. dative of hit: it
3. dative of h?e: them

Descendants

• English: him, 'em

Old Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?m/

Pronoun

him

1. dative of h?; him

Inflection

Saterland Frisian

Etymology

See the etymology of the main entry.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?m/

Pronoun

him

1. oblique of hie; him

See also

References

• “him” in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch

Sursurunga

Verb

him

1. to work

Further reading

• Sursurunga Organised Phonology Data (2011)

West Frisian

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?m/
• (unstressed) IPA^(key): /(?)m/

Pronoun

him

1. object of hy

English

Pronoun

hym

1. Obsolete spelling of him

Manx

Pronoun

hym (emphatic form hyms)

1. first-person singular of hug

   to me

Middle English

Etymology 1

Pronoun

hym

1. Alternative form of him (“him”)

Etymology 2

Pronoun

hym

1. Alternative form of hem (“them”)

Old English

Pronoun

hym

1. Alternative form of him: (to) him/it/them