she

ʃiː

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#1·6h ago

(personal) The female (typically) person or animal previously mentioned or implied.

I asked Mary, but she said that she didn't know.

Origin: , scho, hyo, ȝho, whence also Yorkshire dialectal shoo, , sho. Probably from (whence dialectal ), with an irregular change in stress from hēo to heō , then a development from to to , In that case, sēo 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 shoo, which is in fact found dialectally). It may be due to influence from he,. Origin information sourced from Wiktionary contributors (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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#2·6h ago

(personal, sometimes, _, affectionate) A ship or boat.

After the cat killed a mouse, she left it on our doorstep.

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#3·6h ago

(personal, dated, sometimes, _, affectionate) A country, or sometimes a city, province, planet, etc.

She seems a clever girl, your Isabel.

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