Hit (pronoun)
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This article is about the Old English personal pronoun. For other uses, see Hit (disambiguation).
Hit (IPA: /hɪt/) was the neuter, third-person, singular, personal pronoun (subject case) in Old English.
This word would probably have sounded something like Modern English heat. Dutch and Afrikaans 'het' are closely related.[1]
| Nominative | Accusative | Dative | Genitive | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | Singular | ic | me(c) | me | min | |
| Dual | wit | unc | uncer | |||
| Plural | we | us | ure | |||
| 2nd | Singular | þu | þe | þin | ||
| Dual | git | inc | incer | |||
| Plural | ge | eow | eower | |||
| 3rd | Singular | Masculine | he | hine | him | his |
| Neuter | hit | hit | him | his | ||
| Feminine | heo | hie | hire | hire | ||
| Plural | hie | hie | him | hira | ||
| Nominative | Accusative | Dative | Genitive | |||
[edit] Etymology
| Singular | Plural | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Object | Possessive | Subject | Object | Possessive | ||
| First | I | me | mi(n) | we | us | ure | |
| Second | thou | thee | thy | ye | you | your | |
| Third | Impersonal | hit | it/him | his | he they |
hem them |
hir their |
| Masculine | he | him | his | ||||
| Feminine | sche | hire | hir | ||||
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Peter S. Baker. 'Pronouns'. In Peter S. Baker. The Electronic Introduction to Old English. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003, c. 5.
