different between susie vs her

English

Alternative forms

• her?

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h??(?)/, unstressed IPA^(key): /?(?)/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?h?/, unstressed IPA^(key): /?/
• Homophone: a (non-rhotic, unstressed)
• Rhymes: -??(?)

Etymology

From Middle English here, hir, hire, from Old English hire (“her”), from Proto-Germanic *hez?i (dative and genitive singular of *hij?). 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”).

Determiner

her

1. Belonging to her (belonging to that female, or in poetic or old-fashioned language that ship, city, season, etc).

   This is her book

   • 1928, The Journal of the American Dental Association, page 765:

     Prodigal in everything, summer spreads her blessings with lavish unconcern, and waving her magic wand across the landscape of the world, she bids the sons of men to enter in [...]

   • 2001, Betsy Gould Hearne, Wishes, Kisses, and Pigs, Simon and Schuster (?ISBN), page 78:

     On top of the circle she wrote her name, Louise, just above where the 12 on a clock would be.

   • 2010, Andrew Lambert, Nelson: Britannia's God of War, Faber & Faber (?ISBN):

     On 24 April Nelson rejoined his ship, her battle damage repaired ...

Translations

See also

Pronoun

her

1. The form of she used after a preposition or as the object of a verb; that woman, that ship, etc.

   Give it to her (after preposition)

   He wrote her a letter (indirect object)

   He treated her for a cold (direct object)

   • February 1896, Ground-swells, by Jeannette H. Walworth, published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine; page 183:

     "Then what became of her?"

     "Her? Which ‘her’? The park is full of ‘hers’."

     "The lady with the green feathers in her hat. A big Gainsborough hat. I am quite sure it was Miss Hartuff."

Translations

Noun

her (plural hers)

1. (informal) A female person or animal.

   I think this bird is a him, but it may be a her.

   • 1986, Hélène Cixous, Sorties (translated)

     […] daring dizzying passages in other, fleeting and passionate dwellings within the hims and hers whom she inhabits […]

Synonyms

• she

Anagrams

• EHR, Ehr, HRE, reh

Aromanian

Alternative forms

• heru, hjeru

Etymology

From Latin ferrum. Compare Daco-Romanian fier, Spanish hierro.

Noun

her n (plural heari or heare)

1. iron

Related terms

• hirar

Cornish

Noun

her

1. Mixed mutation of ger.

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [???r]

Noun

her f

1. genitive plural of hra

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse hér.

Adverb

her

1. here

Related terms

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??r/

Adverb

her

1. here

Usage notes

• Not in common usage, "hier" is rather used. "her" is only used in expressions like the ones below.

Derived terms

• her en der (“here and there, hither and thither”), her en der verspreid (“scattered all over the place)”)
• van hot naar her (“from pillar to post, here, there and everywhere”)

Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /he??/

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hér.

Adverb

her

1. here

Etymology 2

From herur.

Noun

her

1. indefinite accusative singular of herur

German

Etymology

From Old High German hera. Cognate to German Low German her.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /he?r/, [he???], [h???]
• Homophones: Heer, hehr
• Homophone: Herr (common merger)
• Rhymes: -e???

Adverb

her

1. hither, to this place, to here, to me/us
2. ago

Synonyms

• hin

Derived terms

• heran
• heraus
• herbei
• herüber
• hierher
• woher

See also

• her-

Further reading

• “her” in Duden online

Gothic

Romanization

h?r

1. Romanization of ????????????

Icelandic

Etymology

From Old Norse herr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h??r/
• Rhymes: -??r

Noun

her m (genitive singular hers, nominative plural herir)

1. army, military

Declension

Derived terms

• herbragð
• hergögn
• herkvaðning
• hermaður
• herstígvél
• þú og hvaða her

Limburgish

Etymology

From hieër

Noun

her m

1. vocative singular of hieër

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English h?r, from Proto-Germanic *h?r?.

Alternative forms

• hair, herre, hare, hore, hær, hor, heere, here, haire, er, heir, heyr, hier, hear, har

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h??r/, /he?r/

Noun

her (plural heres)

2. (countable) a hair (follicular growth on the skin)
3. (uncountable) hair (follicular growths on the skin)
4. pelt, hide, animal skin
5. Something similar in appearance to hair (e.g. a botanical hair)
6. (figuratively) small part, any part (of a person)

Related terms

• hors her
• hery

Descendants

• English: hair
• Scots: hair, hayr, hare

References

• “h?r, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-05-16.

Etymology 2

From Old English h?r, from Proto-Germanic *h??r.

Alternative forms

• here, herre, heir, er, ere, hær, hære, ar, hier, hiere, hir, hire, hare, hyer, hyre

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /he?r/, /h??r/

Adverb

her

1. here

Descendants

• English: here
• Scots: here, her

References

• “h??r, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

Etymology 3

Determiner

her

1. Alternative form of hire (“her”, genitive)

Pronoun

her

1. Alternative form of hire (“hers”)

Etymology 4

Pronoun

her

1. Alternative form of hire (“her”, object)

Etymology 5

Determiner

her

1. Alternative form of here (“their”)

Etymology 6

Adjective

her

1. Alternative form of here (“pleasant”)

Etymology 7

Noun

her (plural heres)

1. Alternative form of here (“haircloth”)

Etymology 8

Noun

her

1. Alternative form of herre (“hinge”)

Etymology 9

Noun

her

1. Alternative form of here (“army”)

Etymology 10

Noun

her (plural heres)

1. Alternative form of heir (“heir”)

Etymology 11

Verb

her

1. Alternative form of heren (“to hear”)

Etymology 12

Adjective

her

1. comparative degree of he (“high”)

North Frisian

Pronoun

her

1. her: third-person singular, feminine, objective
2. her: third-person singular, feminine, possesive

Northern Kurdish

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-Iranian *sárwas.

Adverb

her

1. every, each
2. anyone
3. anyway

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse hér.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hæ?r/

Adverb

her

1. here

Derived terms

• herfra, herifra

References

• “her” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hæ?r/, /he?r/
• Homophone: hær

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hér.

Adverb

her

1. here

   Det er fint å vera her.

   It's nice to be here.

2. just now, recently

   Eg såg ho her ein dag.

   I saw her just the other day.

Etymology 2

Noun

her m (definite singular heren, indefinite plural herar, definite plural herane)

1. form removed with the spelling reform of 2012; superseded by hær

References

• “her” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xe?r/, [he?r]

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *h??r, apparently from the stem *hi- (“this”); the exact formation is unclear. Cognate with Old Saxon h?r, Old High German hiar, Old Norse hér, Gothic ???????????? (h?r).

Adverb

h?r

1. here

Descendants

• Middle English: her, here, heer
  • English: here
  • Scots: her, here

Etymology 2

Noun

h?r n

1. Alternative form of h?r

Old Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *h?r?. Cognates include Old English h?r, Old Saxon h?r and Old Dutch h?r.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?he?r/, [?h??r]

Noun

h?r n

1. hair

Descendants

• North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum: hiar

  Goesharde: heer, häär

  Halligen: heer

  Heligoland: Hear

  Mooring: häär

  Sylt: Hiir

  Wiedingharde: heer

• Saterland Frisian: Hier
• West Frisian: hier

References

• Bremmer, Rolf H. (2009) An Introduction to Old Frisian: History, Grammar, Reader, Glossary, Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, ?ISBN

Old High German

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *hairaz.

Adjective

h?r (comparative h?rro)

1. gray-haired, old
2. noble, venerable

Descendants

• Middle High German: h?r
  • German: hehr

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *hiz.

Pronoun

h?r

1. (northern dialects) Alternative form of er

Descendants

• Middle High German: hër, he
  • Central Franconian:
    • Moselle Franconian: ä, en (from the accusative)
      • Eifelisch: hän, hen, en
      • Luxembourgish: hien, en
    • Ripuarian:
      • Kölsch: hä, ä
  • East Central German:
    • Lusatian-New Marchian: hä
    • Thuringian:
      • North Thuringian: he, hä
  • Rhine Franconian:
    • Hessian:
      • Low Hessian: he, hä
      • South Hessian: he
  • Vilamovian: h?r

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish ???, from Persian ??? (har). Cognate with Latin salvus (“safe, whole”), Ancient Greek ???? (hólos, “complete, whole”).

Determiner

her

1. every
2. each

Volapük

Noun

her (nominative plural hers)

1. hair

Declension

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?r/

Noun

her f (plural heriau, not mutable)

1. challenge

Zazaki

Etymology 1

Related to Persian ??? (har).

Adjective

her

1. each

Etymology 2

Related to Persian ??? (xar).

Noun

her ?

1. donkey