she

Etymology
From, , , , whence also Yorkshire dialectal , 🇨🇬,.

Probably from  (whence dialectal 🇨🇬), with an irregular change in stress from hēo to heō, then a development from  to  to ,  similar to the derivation of Shetland from. In this case, she is from, from , from , , and is cognate with 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬; more at.

A derivation from 🇨🇬 is also possible, though less likely. In that case, would have undergone a change in stress from sēo to seō, then a change from  to , similar to the derivation of sure from. It would then be cognate to 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬.

Neither etymology would be expected to yield the modern vocalism in (the expected form would be, which is in fact found dialectally). It may be due to influence from, but both and  also have rare variants ( and ) that may give modern English.

Pronoun

 * 1)  The female (typically) person or animal previously mentioned or implied.
 * 2)  A ship or boat.
 * 3)  A country, or sometimes a city, province, planet, etc.
 * 4)  Any machine or thing, such as a car, a computer, or (poetically) a season.
 * 5)  A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant.
 * 1)  A ship or boat.
 * 2)  A country, or sometimes a city, province, planet, etc.
 * 3)  Any machine or thing, such as a car, a computer, or (poetically) a season.
 * 4)  A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant.
 * 1)  Any machine or thing, such as a car, a computer, or (poetically) a season.
 * 2)  A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant.
 * 1)  A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant.
 * 1)  A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant.
 * 1)  A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant.
 * 1)  A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant.
 * 1)  A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant.

Usage notes

 * Since at least the 1920s and 30s, some gay or queer men refer to other gay or queer men and/or themselves with she/her pronouns, as well as with other feminine terms such as Miss and girl, to signal their sexuality rather than their gender identity; this has sometimes been termed "the gay she":


 * 1994, George Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940, pages 56-57:
 * One indication of the extent to which men became accustomed to thinking of fairies as pseudo-women was provided in 1939 by a State Liquor Authority investigator who casually referred to a fairy (who went by a woman's name but dressed in conventional male attire) as "she," even though he was testifying at a formal hearing of the Authority. "We did get in a conversation with Beverly," he testified, "and she stated she liked us very much." When asked by an attorney whether he meant "she" or "he," he explained that the fairies "address themselves by these effeminate names and refer to one another in the effeminate terms," and promptly continued: "She [the fairy] made a date with Mr. Van Wagner and myself for Saturday night."
 * One indication of the extent to which men became accustomed to thinking of fairies as pseudo-women was provided in 1939 by a State Liquor Authority investigator who casually referred to a fairy (who went by a woman's name but dressed in conventional male attire) as "she," even though he was testifying at a formal hearing of the Authority. "We did get in a conversation with Beverly," he testified, "and she stated she liked us very much." When asked by an attorney whether he meant "she" or "he," he explained that the fairies "address themselves by these effeminate names and refer to one another in the effeminate terms," and promptly continued: "She [the fairy] made a date with Mr. Van Wagner and myself for Saturday night."

Translations

 * Abkhaz: лара
 * Afar: is
 * Afrikaans:
 * Akan: ɔno
 * Albanian:
 * Amharic: እሷ
 * Arabic:
 * Chadian Arabic: هي
 * Egyptian: هي
 * Hijazi: هي
 * Levantine Arabic: هي
 * Aragonese: ella
 * Aramaic:
 * Hebrew: הי
 * Syriac: ܗܝ
 * Western Neo-Aramaic: ܗܝܗ
 * Armenian:
 * Aromanian: ea, ia, nãsã, nãsa
 * Assamese: তাই, এই , তেওঁ , এওঁ
 * Asturian:
 * Aymara: jupa
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Bambara: a
 * Bashkir: ул
 * Basque: bera,
 * Belarusian: яна́
 * Bengali: ,
 * Bikol Central:
 * Bouyei: deel
 * Breton:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese: ,
 * Carpathian Rusyn: она́
 * Catalan:
 * Central Sierra Miwok: hís·ak
 * Chichewa: iye
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:, 她 (formal, from Mandarin), 姖
 * Dungan: та
 * Eastern Min: 伊
 * Hakka: 佢
 * Hokkien:
 * Jin: 她
 * Mandarin:, ,
 * Teochew: 伊
 * Wu: 伊
 * Chuvash: вӑл
 * Corsican: ,
 * Czech:
 * Dalmatian: jala
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Dyirbal:
 * Egyptian:,  , ,  ,
 * Erzya: сон
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian:
 * Ewe: eya
 * Fala: ela
 * Faroese:
 * Fijian: koya
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Old French: ele
 * Friulian: jê
 * Galician:
 * Georgian:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: αὕτη, ἥδε, ἐκείνη;  ἡ, ἥ
 * Greenlandic: una
 * Guaraní: ha'e
 * Hausa: ’ítá
 * Havasupai-Walapai-Yavapai: nyihá
 * Hawaiian: ia
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:  (read: ve),  (read: ye)
 * Hopi: pam
 * Hungarian:,  -∅
 * Icelandic:
 * Ido: ,
 * Indonesian: ,
 * Ingrian: hää
 * Interlingua:
 * Irish: sí, í
 * Istriot: gila
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, あの人,  あの方,
 * Judeo-Italian: אֵיסַה
 * Kabuverdianu: el
 * Kannada: ,
 * Karakhanid: اُلْ
 * Karelian: häi
 * Kashubian:
 * Kazakh:
 * Khakas: ол
 * Khmer:, , អ្នកស្រី, លោកស្រី, ព្រះនាង,
 * Korean:, ,
 * Kyrgyz:
 * Ladin: ëila
 * Lao:
 * Latgalian: jei, šei
 * Latin:, ,
 * Latvian:
 * Limburgish: ,
 * Lingala: yě
 * Lithuanian:
 * Louisiana Creole French: li
 * Low German: ,
 * Macedonian:
 * Malay: ,
 * Maltese:
 * Maori: ia
 * Mazanderani: وه
 * Mbyá Guaraní: ha'e
 * Mòcheno: si
 * Moksha: сон
 * Mongolian:
 * Motu: ia
 * Ngazidja Comorian: ye
 * Northern Sami: son
 * Norwegian:
 * Occitan:
 * Ojibwe: wiin
 * Old Church Slavonic: она
 * Old East Slavic: она
 * Old English: hēo
 * Old Irish: sí
 * Old Occitan: ella
 * Old Portuguese: ela
 * Ossetian: уый
 * Pashto: ,
 * Pela: jɔ̃³¹
 * Persian:,  , اوی
 * Piedmontese: chila
 * Pipil: yaja, yaha
 * Pirahã: hi
 * Pitjantjatjara: ngaa,  pala,  nyara,  palunya
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Quechua:
 * Rapa Nui: ia
 * Romani: oj
 * Kalo Finnish Romani: joi
 * Vlax Romani: voj
 * Romanian: ,
 * Romansch: ella
 * Russian:
 * Sami:
 * Inari: sun
 * Lule: sån
 * Northern: son
 * Skolt: son
 * Southern: dïhte
 * Scottish Gaelic: i, ise
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: она
 * Roman:
 * Sicilian:
 * Sidamo: ise
 * Sinhalese:
 * Slovak: ona
 * Slovene:
 * Sorbian:
 * Lower Sorbian: wóna
 * Upper Sorbian:
 * Southern Altai: ол
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili: yeye
 * Swedish:
 * Sylheti: ꠔꠣꠁ, ꠔꠣꠁꠘ
 * Tagalog: siya
 * Tajik:
 * Taos: ą́wąną
 * Tatar:
 * Telugu:
 * Thai:, ,
 * Tigrinya:
 * Tlingit: hú
 * Tupinambá: a'e
 * Turkish:
 * Turkmen: ol
 * Udmurt: со
 * Ugaritic: 𐎅𐎊
 * Ukrainian:
 * Unami: nàni
 * Urdu: وہ, یہ
 * Uyghur:
 * Uzbek:
 * Venetian: eła
 * Vietnamese: chị ấy,  cô ấy,  bà ấy,
 * Volapük:
 * Walloon:,  ,
 * Welsh: hi
 * West Frisian: ,
 * White Hmong: nws
 * Wolof:
 * Yámana: kitu
 * Yiddish: זי
 * Yoruba: ó, á
 * Yucatec Maya: letiʼ
 * Zazaki:
 * Zhuang: de
 * Zulu: yena, wona, lona, sona, yona, lona
 * ǃKung: ha
 * ǃXóõ: èh, èhʻè, ã`h,  ã̀hʻã̀


 * Danish:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * German: ,
 * Irish: sí


 * German:, ,

Noun

 * 1) A female.
 * 2) * 2000, Sue V. Rosser, Building inclusive science volume 28, issues 1–2, page 189:
 * A world where the hes are so much more common than the shes can hardly be seen as a welcoming place for women.
 * 1) * 2000, Sue V. Rosser, Building inclusive science volume 28, issues 1–2, page 189:
 * A world where the hes are so much more common than the shes can hardly be seen as a welcoming place for women.
 * 1) * 2000, Sue V. Rosser, Building inclusive science volume 28, issues 1–2, page 189:
 * A world where the hes are so much more common than the shes can hardly be seen as a welcoming place for women.
 * A world where the hes are so much more common than the shes can hardly be seen as a welcoming place for women.

Etymology
A derivative of.

Noun

 * 1) undrying rivulet, torrent, rapid stream

Etymology
From. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Usage notes
Used in present and future sentences for identification or definition of a subject as the person/object identified in the predicate of the sentence. Used to introduce cleft sentences, which are extremely common in Manx. It is not a verb. For the particle that introduces adjectives, see.

She has no past tense; the appropriate conjugation of must be used instead.

Etymology
From.

Numeral

 * 1) ten