hy

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See also: Hy, , and hỹ

Translingual

Symbol

hy

  1. (international standards) ISO 639-1 language code for Armenian.

Afrikaans

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Dutch hij, from Middle Dutch hi, from Old Dutch hie, , from Proto-Germanic *hiz.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɦəi/,
  • (file)

Pronoun

hy (object hom, possessive sy)

  1. third-person singular subject pronoun
    1. he (referring to a male person)
      Hy sien my nie.
      He can’t see me.
    2. it (referring to a non-personal noun)
      Ek het die boek gelees, maar hy is baie moeilik om te volg.
      I’ve read the book, but it is very difficult to follow.

Synonyms

See also

Canela

Etymology

From Proto-Northern Jê *ˀcy (seed) < Proto-Cerrado *cym (seed) < Proto-Jê *cym (seed).

Pronunciation

Noun

hy

  1. seed
    Hũmre ata amji mã ampeaj kam hãn ne ampo hy ata kre.
    That man quietly peacefully plants those seeds (without shouting or arguments).
  2. penis
    Synonym: jixôt

Cornish

Etymology 1

From Proto-Celtic *sī (compare Welsh hi).

Alternative forms

Pronoun

hy

  1. she, her

Etymology 2

From Proto-Brythonic *eið, from *esyās f; compare Old Irish a (his, her, its, their) and अस्यास् (asyā́s, her).

Pronunciation

Determiner

hy

  1. (possessive) her, its (with reference to feminine nouns; triggers aspirate mutation of following consonant)
    hy has hi
    her seeds

Pronoun

hy

  1. her, it (with reference to feminine nouns; as object of a verbal noun; triggers aspirate mutation of following consonant)
    My vedn hy fe hei.
    I will pay her.
    Ny wonn hy hegi.
    I do not know how to cook it.
Usage notes
  • Dual marking of possession is possible by adding hi/hei after the noun or verbal noun which hy precedes. Although originally a form of emphasis, in Late Cornish this structure had largely lost its emphatic meaning.
  • In Late Cornish, masculine y and feminine hy had become homophonic with the pronunciation /i/.

Noun

hy

  1. Aspirate mutation of ky.

Demotic

Etymology 1

From Egyptian
hiD52A1
(hj, husband).

Pronunciation

Noun

D53yh m

  1. husband
Descendants
  • Coptic: ϩⲁⲓ (hai) (Sahidic, Bohairic), ϩⲉⲓ (hei) (Fayyumic, Akhmimic), ϩⲉⲉⲓ (heei) (Lycopolitan)

Etymology 2

From Egyptian
hAD54
(hꜣj, to descend).

Verb

A14yh

  1. (intransitive) to fall, to descend, to perish
Descendants

References

  • Černý, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 270
  • Erichsen, Wolja (1954) Demotisches Glossar, Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard, page 266, 267
  • Johnson, Janet (2000) Thus Wrote ꜥOnchsheshonqy: An Introductory Grammar of Demotic, third edition, Chicago: The Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, →ISBN, page 9, 78
  • Janet H. Johnson, editor (2001) The Demotic Dictionary of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, volume H (10.1), Chicago: The University of Chicago, page 11

Egyptian

Pronunciation

Interjection

hii
  1. (vocative, before the name of the person called) O, hey, hail
  2. a call to someone unspecified; hey

Alternative forms

Noun

hiiA2

 m

  1. cry of joy

Inflection

Alternative forms

References

Middle English

Etymology 1

Pronoun

hy

  1. Alternative form of heo (she)

Etymology 2

Pronoun

hy

  1. Alternative form of he (they)

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse , from Proto-Germanic *hiwją, either from Proto-Indo-European *kew-, *ḱew- or from Proto-Indo-European *ḱey-, or a merger of the two. Compare English hue.

Noun

hy c (uncountable)

  1. skin, complexion ((appearance of) skin on the face)

Declension

Declension of hy 
Uncountable
Indefinite Definite
Nominative hy hyn
Genitive hys hyns

Derived terms

See also

Welsh

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Middle Welsh hy, from Proto-Brythonic *hɨɣ, from Proto-Celtic *segos, from Proto-Indo-European *seǵʰ- (to overpower).

Cognate with Proto-Germanic *segaz, Sanskrit सहस् (sáhas, force, power, victory), and Ancient Greek ἔχω (ékhō, I have, I own).

Pronunciation

Adjective

hy (feminine singular hy, plural hyfion, equative hyfed, comparative hyfach, superlative hyfaf, not mutable)

  1. bold

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ R. J. Thomas, G. A. Bevan, P. J. Donovan, A. Hawke et al., editors (1950–present), “hy”, in Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru Online (in Welsh), University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh & Celtic Studies

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian , from Proto-West Germanic *hiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *hiz.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

hy

  1. he (third-person singular masculine pronoun)

Usage notes

The accusative him is used roughly like "himself" and "itself" in English. In these cases, it is used after a verb when there is another object in the sentence. For example:

Dy partij stelt him op it stânpunt fan it federalisme.
This party puts itself on the standpoint of federalism.

In other reflexive cases, the reflexively marked pronoun himsels is used.

The clitic form er is used before the object of the sentence or after the verb, if there is one. It is never the first word of a sentence.

Doe't er in swolch naam
When he took a swallow

Especially in narrative, er is used in the past tense.

Inflection

Further reading

  • hy (I)”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011