hy

hy

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

• hij (obsolete)

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

• IPA^(key): /ɦəi/,

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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.

• (it): dit

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

• IPA^(key): /hɨ/

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

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

• hi
• hei

hy

1. she, her

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

• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key): /i/

hy

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

   hy has hi

   her seeds

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.

• 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/.

hy

1. Aspirate mutation of ky.

From Egyptian (hj, “husband”).

• IPA^(key): /haj/, IPA^(key): /hej/ (depending on dialect)

⁠⁠ m

1. husband

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

From Egyptian (hꜣj, “to descend”).

⁠⁠

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

• Coptic: ϩⲉ (he) (Sahidic), ϩⲉⲓ (hei) (Bohairic)

• Černý, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 270
• Erichsen, Wolja (1954) Demotisches Glossar, Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard, pages 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, pages 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

• IPA^(key): /ɦɛi̯/

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• Rhymes: -ɛi̯
• Homophone: hei

hy

1. Obsolete spelling of hij.

• The spelling hy was deprecated in a Dutch spelling reform.

• (modern Egyptological) IPA^(key): /hiː/
  • Conventional anglicization: hy

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

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of hy  

hj	h

 m

1. cry of joy
   • c. 1401 BCE, Amduat of Amenhotep II (tomb of Amenhotep II, KV35) First Hour, closing text, lines 8–9:

     jw hy n rꜥ r r(ꜣ) ꜥꜣwj tꜣ hnw n.k srq ꜣḫw ꜥq.k sbꜣ n(j) wrt

     May there be cries of joy for Ra at the opening of the double doors of the earth, and acclaim for you who make the akh-spirits breathe when you enter the door of the Great (i.e. the afterworld).

Alternative hieroglyphic writings of hy  

hy	hꜣy	hꜣy

• Erman, Adolf, Grapow, Hermann (1928) Wörterbuch der ägyptischen Sprache‎, volume 2, Berlin: Akademie-Verlag, →ISBN, pages 482.12-16, 483.1–483.13
• Faulkner, Raymond Oliver (1962) A Concise Dictionary of Middle Egyptian, Oxford: Griffith Institute, →ISBN, page 157

hy

1. Alternative form of heo (“she”)

hy

1. Alternative form of he (“they”)

• IPA^(key): /xyː/,

hȳ

1. Alternative form of hīe (“they”)

From Old Norse hý, 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.

hy c (uncountable)

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

• -hyad (“-skinned”)

• hud

• hyf

From Middle Welsh hy, from Proto-Brythonic *hɨɣ, from Proto-Celtic *segos, from Proto-Indo-European *seǵʰ- (“to overpower”).^[1]

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

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /hɨː/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /hiː/
• Rhymes: -ɨː

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

1. bold

• hyder (“confidence”)

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

• (Clay) IPA^(key): /hɛi̯/
• (Wood) IPA^(key): /hi/

hy

1. he (third-person singular masculine pronoun)

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.

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