him

him

1. (international standards) ISO 639-2 language code for Western Pahari languages.

From Middle English him, from Old English him, from Proto-Germanic *himmai (“to this, to this one”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian him (“him”), West Frisian him (“him”), Sylt North Frisian ham, höm (“him”), Dutch hem (“him”), German Low German hum, hüm, em (“him”), German ihm (“him”, dative).

• (UK, US) enPR: hĭm, IPA^(key): /ˈhɪm/, unstressed IPA^(key): /əm/, [ɪ̈m]

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• Rhymes: -ɪm
• Homophone: hymn,'em for unstressed in some pronunciations.

him (personal pronoun, objective case)

1. A masculine pronoun; he as a grammatical object.
   1. With dative effect or as an indirect object. [from 9th c.]
      • 1529, John Frith, A piſtle to the Chriſten reader […] ‎:

        […] therfoꝛ Chꝛiſt wold not call him abominable / But the verye abomination it ſilf.

      • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, OCLC 688657546:

        ‘I promise,’ he said as I gave him the papers.

   2. Following a preposition. [from 9th c.]
      • 1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], Pride and Prejudice, volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton […], OCLC 38659585:

        She was in no humour for conversation with anyone but himself; and to him she had hardly courage to speak.

   3. With accusative effect or as a direct object. [from 12th c.]
      • 1852 March – 1853 September, Charles Dickens, Bleak House, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1853, OCLC 999756093:

        ‘He's got it buttoned in his breast. I saw him put it there.’

2. (now rare) Used reflexively: (to) himself. [from 9th c.]
   • 1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], OCLC 762018299, Acts ]:

     Apon a daye apoynted, the kynge arayed hym in royall apparell, and set hym in his seate, and made an oracion unto them.

   • 1765, Oliver Goldsmith, The traveller, or, A prospect of society

     Though poor the peasant’s hut, his feasts though small,

     He sees his little lot the lot of all;

     [...]

     But calm, and bred in ignorance and toil,

     Each wish contracting, fits him to the soil.

3. With nominative effect: he, especially as a predicate after be, or following a preposition. [from 15th c.]
   • c. 1606 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Macbeth”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act V, scene x]:

     Before my body, I throw my warlike Shield: Lay on Macduffe, And damn'd be him, that first cries hold, enough.

   • 2003, Claire Cozens, The Guardian, 11 Jun 2003:

     Lowe quit the West Wing last year amid rumours that he was unhappy that his co-stars earned more than him.

4. Alternative letter-case form of Him

• Jamaican Creole: im
• Pijin: hem
• Pijin: -im

• he
• his
• her
• them

him (plural hims)

1. (informal) A male person or animal.

   I think this bird is a him, but it may be a her.

   • 1985, Hélène Cixous, Sorties (translated)

     […] daring dizzying passages in other, fleeting and passionate dwellings within the hims and hers whom she inhabits […]

   • 2004, Tom Wolfe, I Am Charlotte Simmons: A Novel

     Both hims took a good look at him.

   • 2004, Charles J. Sullivan, Love and Survival, page 68:

     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?”

• he

• HMI

him

1. water

• Luis Oramas, Materiales para el estudio de los dialectos Ayamán, Gayón, Jirajara, Ajagua (1916)

him m

1. h-prothesized form of im

• IPA^(key): /him/

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him

1. third-person masculine singular, dative: him, to him

   Ech baken him e Kuch.

   I'm baking him a cake.

2. third-person neuter singular, dative: her, to her; (rarely: it, to it)

   Hie war gëschter mat him am Kino.

   He went to the cinema with her yesterday.

• For the use of the neuter for referring to female persons, see hatt.

From Old English him. Originally a dative form; gradually displaced accusative hine.

• himm, hym, im, ym, hem, hime, hyme

him (nominative he)

1. Third-person singular masculine pronoun indicating a grammatical object: him.
2. (reflexive) himself.
   • c. 1275, Judas (Roud 2964, Child Ballad 23, Trinity College MS. B.14.39)‎, folio 34, recto, lines 36-37; republished at Cambridge: Wren Digital Library (Trinity College), 29 May 2019:

     Stille þou be peter. Wel i þe icnowe. / þou wolt fur ſake me þrien . ar þe coc him crowe.

     "Quiet now, Peter. I know you well; / You'll forsake me three times when the cock crows (himself)."

3. Third-person singular neuter pronoun indicating a grammatical object: it.
4. (impersonal) Third-person singular neuter pronoun indicating a grammatical object one, you.

• English: him
• Yola: ham, him, em

• “him, pron.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 6 May 2018.

him

1. Alternative form of hem (“them”)

• IPA^(key): /him/

him

1. safe
2. unscathed

• IPA^(key): /hiːm/

him

1. (dialectal) alternative form of heim

• hym, heom, eom

• IPA^(key): /him/

him

1. dative of hē: him
2. dative of hit: it
3. dative of hīe: them

• Middle English: him
  • English: him
  • Yola: ham, him, em
• Middle English: hem
  • English: 'em, hem
  • Yola: aam

• IPA^(key): /hɪm/

him

1. dative of hī; him

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

• IPA^(key): /hɪm/

him

1. oblique of hie; him

• Marron C. Fort (2015), “him”, in Saterfriesisches Wörterbuch mit einer phonologischen und grammatischen Übersicht, Buske, →ISBN

him

1. to work

• Sursurunga Organised Phonology Data (2011)

From Old Frisian him, from Proto-Germanic *himmai.

• IPA^(key): /hɪm/
• (unstressed) IPA^(key): /(ə)m/

him

1. object of hy

him

1. Alternative form of ham
   • 1867, “SONG”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3:

     Shoo zent him o' die.

     She sent him one day.

• Jacob Poole (1867), William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, page 108