hirとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /hɪə(ɹ)/
• (米国発音) enPR: hēr, IPA: /hɪɹ/
• 韻: -ɪə(ɹ), -ɪ(ɹ)
• 異形同音異義語: here, hear

代名詞

hir (third-person singular, gender-neutral, objective case, reflexive hirself)

1. (nonstandard) Them (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular object pronoun, coordinate with him and her.
   • 1988, Jeffrey Carver, From a Changeling Star, New York: Bantam Books, →ISBN, →OL, page 232:

     But once the disorientation had passed, hir forced hirself back to full consciousness--and worked quickly to establish hir position, and Ruskin's.

   • 1996 June, Caitlin Sullivan with Bornstein, Kate, Nearly Roadkill: an Infobahn erotic adventure‎, New York: Serpent's Tail, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, LCC PS3569.U3449 N43 1996, page 10:

     I don't know what Scratch looks like in the real world, I met hir online.

   • 1997 December 18, Kate Bornstein, My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely‎, London, New York: Routledge, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, LCC HQ1075.B69 1998, page 130:

     Words like "freak" became attached to hir name, and I don't believe "brave" was ever a word the media associated with hir.

   • 2000 August 29, Peter David, Renaissance (Star Trek New Frontier: Excalibur #10)‎, Simon & Schuster, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, page 137:

     T'Pau leveled a gaze at hir. "You are male and female ... and neither. 'It' is the proper word. We have no use for semantic games on Vulcan."

同意語

• (singular) them
• (neologism) em, per

下位語

• him, her

派生語

• (neologism) hirself

限定詞

hir

1. (nonstandard) Belonging to hir, their (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular possessive adjective, coordinate with his and her.
   • 1971 March 1, Alexander M. Mood, “Partitioning Variance in Multiple Regression Analyses as a Tool For Developing Learning Models”, in American Educational Research Journal, volume 8, number 2, American Educational Research Association, →DOI, page 192:

     Getting down to cases now, a child's learning, L, in the sixth grade will be a function of a number, say k, of variables X1 X2, X3, ... Xk representing hir (hir is an abbreviation for his or her and is pronounced here) previous education, motivation, rapport with teachers, peers' atitudes toward education, teachers' ability, and so on.

   • 1988, Jeffrey Carver, From a Changeling Star, New York: Bantam Books, →ISBN, →OL, page 232:

     But once the disorientation had passed, hir forced hirself back to full consciousness--and worked quickly to establish hir position, and Ruskin's.

   • 1996 June, Caitlin Sullivan with Bornstein, Kate, Nearly Roadkill: an Infobahn erotic adventure, New York: Serpent's Tail, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, LCC PS3569.U3449 N43 1996, page 13:

     It is here that Scratch has found hirself, bored out of hir mind but unable to sleep.

   • 2002, Frank Schaap, The Words That Took Us There: Ethnography in a Virtual Reality, Amsterdam: Aksant Academic Publishers, →ISBN, →OL, page 32:

     The player playing hir character in a MUD (usually) tries to portray a credible, convincing person within the theme of that world, using the tools that MUD provides, hir imagination, and hir social and communicative skills.

   • 2011 March 29, Jody Norton, “Transchildren and the Discipline of Children's Literature”, in Kenneth B. Kidd, Michelle Ann Abate, editors, Over the Rainbow: Queer Children's and Young Adult Literature, University of Michigan, →ISBN, LCC PS374.H63 O84 2011, page 305:

     "It's a scientific matter," Ludo announces, explaining hir very out transgender behavior (an ongoing source of embarrassment to hir would-be upwardly mobile parents) as the result of hir other X chromosome's having accidentally fallen into the trash on its way down from heaven.

   • 2011 May 19, Ken Wickham, The Other Genders: Androgyne, Genderqueer, Non-Binary Gender Variant‎, CreateSpace, →ISBN, page 7:

     Sie may feel that hir actual identity of hir gender is supposed to be both/neither male or female, outside of gender, third gender, beyond gender, absence of gender, mixing gender, changing gender, or all genders.

   • 2023 June 22, Kurt Soller, Liz Brown, Rose Courteau, Kate Guadagnino, Sara Holdren, “The 25 Most Influential Works of Postwar Queer Literature”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     A lifelong political activist, Leslie Feinberg (who used the pronoun hir) devoted most of hir writing to exploring the complexities of gender.

使用する際の注意点

A declension shared by several gender-neutral pronoun schemata. Subjective forms associated with hir include s/he, sie, shi, and ze. For additional considerations regarding use among members of the genderqueer community, see usage notes for ze.

同意語

• (singular) their
• (neologism) eir

下位語

• his, her

派生語

• (neologism) hirs

参考

• other attested gender-neutral pronouns

アナグラム

• IHR

動詞

hīr

1. singular imperative of hīran

限定詞

hir

1. alternative form of hire (“her”)

代名詞

hir

1. alternative form of hire (“hers”)

語源 2

代名詞

hir

1. alternative form of hire (“her”)

語源 3

名詞

hir

1. alternative form of hire (“wages”)

語源

From Proto-Italic *hezor, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰésōr. Cognate with Ancient Greek χείρ (kheír).

発音

• (Classical Latin) IPA: [ˈhiːr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA: [ˈir]

名詞

hīr n sg (indeclinable, no genitive)

1. (rare, anatomy) hand

   Synonym: manus

参照

• “hir”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “hīr”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• hīr in Georges, Karl Ernst; Georges, Heinrich (1913–1918), Ausführliches lateinisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch, 8th edition, volume 1, Hahnsche Buchhandlung