Noun: her
Sample Sentences
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I think this bird is a him, but it may be a her.
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[…] daring dizzying passages in other, fleeting and passionate dwellings within the hims and hers whom she inhabits […] [1986, Hélène Cixous, Sorties (translated)]
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By this time, she had so many questions, but she only hit him up for one answer about those “hims” and “hers.” She asked, “Do both hims and hers reproduce hummers?” [2004, Charles J. Sullivan, Love and Survival, page 68:]
Nouns inflected like her
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle English here, hir, hire, from Old English hire (“her”), from Proto-Germanic *hezōi (dative singular of *hijō).
2. 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”). See: Middle English Nouns '
here', Old English Nouns '
hire', Dutch Nouns '
haar'.