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Webster 1913 Edition
Hy
Hy
,Adj.
High.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.
Definition 2024
hy
hy
See also: hý
Afrikaans
Pronoun
hy (object hom, possessive sy)
- he (subject)
See also
Afrikaans personal pronouns
| subjective | objective | possessive | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | 1st | ek | my | my | ||
| 2nd | jy | jou | jou | |||
| 2nd, formal | u | u | ||||
| 3rd, masc | hy | hom | sy | |||
| 3rd, fem | sy | haar | haar | |||
| 3rd, neut | dit | sy | ||||
| plural | 1st | ons | ons | |||
| 2nd | julle | julle / jul1 | ||||
| 3rd | hulle | hulle / hul1 | ||||
| 1. In the second and third persons plural, the usual possessive forms are julle and hulle (like the subjective and objective forms), but jul and hul are sometimes used instead when the sentence would otherwise be ambiguous. | ||||||
Swedish
Etymology
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.
Noun
hy c (uncountable)