Clipping of English Sheko.

she

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Sheko.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Sheko terms

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Inherited from Middle English sche, scho, hyo, ȝho (“she”), whence also Yorkshire dialectal shoo (“she”), Scots she, sho (“she”).

Probably from Old English hēo^[1][2] (whence dialectal English hoo), with an irregular change in stress from hēo to heō /hjoː/, then a development from /hj-/ to /ç/ to /ʃ-/,^[3][4] similar to the derivation of Shetland from Old Norse Hjaltland. In this case, she is from Proto-West Germanic *hiju, from Proto-Germanic *hijō f (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this, here”), and is cognate with Saterland Frisian jo, ju, West Frisian hja, North Frisian jü, Danish hun, Swedish hon; more at he.

A derivation from Old English sēo (“that one”, occasionally “she”) is also possible, though less likely.^[2][3][4] In that case, sēo would have undergone a change in stress from sēo to seō /sjoː/, then a change from /sj-/ to /ʃ-/, similar to the derivation of sure from Old French seur.^[4][5] It would then be cognate to Dutch zij and German sie.

Neither etymology would be expected to yield the modern vocalism in /iː/ (the expected form would be shoo, which is in fact found dialectally). It may be due to influence from he,^[1] but both hēo and sēo also have rare variants (hīe and sīe) that may give modern English /iː/.^[4][6]

• IPA^(key): /ʃiː/
• (Northumbria, unstressed) IPA^(key): /ʃə/

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• Rhymes: -iː
• Homophones: sidhe, Xi, shee

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she (third-person singular, feminine, nominative case, oblique and possessive her, possessive hers, reflexive herself)

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

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

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

   She seems a clever girl, your Isabel.

   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Goodly she entertaind those noble knights, / And brought them vp into her castle hall […]

   • 1917, Anton Chekhov, translated by Constance Garnett, The Darling and Other Stories‎^[1], Project Gutenberg, published 9 September 2004, →ISBN, page 71:

     The mother, Ekaterina Pavlovna, who at one time had been handsome, but now, asthmatic, depressed, vague, and over-feeble for her years, tried to entertain me with conversation about painting. Having heard from her daughter that I might come to Shelkovka, she had hurriedly recalled two or three of my landscapes which she had seen in exhibitions in Moscow, and now asked what I meant to express by them.

   • 2024 June 25, Issy Ronald, “Kevin, world’s tallest male dog, dies shortly after securing record”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     His family, who live in West Des Moines, Iowa, have been left “devastated,” his owner Tracy Wolfe said in GWR press release. “He was just the best giant boy,” she added.

   • 2024 December 31, Brooke Kato, “What is ‘microretirement’? Gen Z and millennials spawn new career trend to help with woes”, in New York Post‎^[3]:

     Morgan Sanner, a 27-year-old human resources worker in Ohio, told New York magazine’s The Cut that she felt inspired to follow in the footsteps of other people — who she noticed were “taking significant breaks” from their careers — after going abroad for the first time.

2. (personal, sometimes endearing) A ship or boat.

   She could do forty knots in good weather.

   She is a beautiful boat, isn’t she?

3. (personal, dated, sometimes endearing) A country, or sometimes a city, province, planet, etc.

   She is a poor place, but has beautiful scenery and friendly people.

4. (personal, endearing or poetic, chiefly dated) A thing, especially a machine or other object, such as a car, a computer, or (poetically) a season.

   She only gets thirty miles to the gallon on the highway, but she’s durable.

   • 1928, The Journal of the American Dental Association, page 765:

     Prodigal in everything, summer spreads her blessings with lavish unconcern, and waving her magic wand across the landscape of the world, she bids the sons of men to enter in and possess. Summer is the great consummation.

   • 1977, “57 Chevy”, in Kansas City Slickers, performed by The Leopards:

     She is my 57 Chevy / My 57 Chevy runs so fine / No one can beat my 57 Chevy

   • 2017, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Bad Dad, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:

     The car’s engine revved up, and the back wheels screeched. Then she lurched forward at terrific speed.

5. (personal, nonstandard) A person whose gender is unknown or irrelevant (used in a work, along with or in place of he, as an indefinite pronoun).
   • 1990, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience:

     Optimal experience is thus something that we make happen. For a child, it could be placing with trembling fingers the last block on a tower she has built, higher than any she has built so far; for a swimmer, it could be trying to beat his own record; for a violinist, mastering an intricate musical passage.

• Since at least the 1920s and 30s, some gay or queer men refer to other gay or queer men and/or themselves with she/her pronouns, as well as with other feminine terms such as Miss and girl, to signal their sexuality rather than their gender identity;^[7] this has sometimes been termed "the gay she":^[8][9]

• shoo, hoo (Northern England dialect)
• shee (obsolete)

• she-

she (plural shes)

1. A female.

   Pat is definitely a she.

   • 1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC:

     Come, come, we know very well what all the matter is; but if one won’t, another will; so pretty a gentleman need never want a lady. I am sure, if I was you, I would see the finest she that ever wore a head hanged, before I would go for a soldier for her.

   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 130”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:

     And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare / As any she belied with false compare.

   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

     he came home to find […] honest Swartz in her favourite amber-coloured satin, with turquoise bracelets, countless rings, flowers, feathers, and all sorts of tags and gimcracks, about as elegantly decorated as a she chimney-sweep on May-day.

   • 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 199:

     “They were all hairy-faced bulls but one,” he said, “and that one was a she, lighter in color even than this stranger,” and he chucked a thumb at Tarzan.

   • 1920, Agatha Christie, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published 1954, page 12:

     “Then,” I said, much amused, “you think that if you were mixed up in a crime, say a murder, you’d be able to spot the murderer right off?” “Of course I should. Mightn’t be able to prove it to a pack of lawyers. But I’m certain I’d know. I’d feel it in my fingertips if he came near me.” “It might be a ‘she’,” I suggested.

   • 1972, Lou Reed, “Walk on the Wild Side”, in Transformer:

     Plucked her eyebrows on the way / Shaved her legs and then he was a she

   • 2000, Sue V. Rosser, Building inclusive science volume 28, issues 1–2, page 189:

     A world where the hes are so much more common than the shes can hardly be seen as a welcoming place for women.

she

1. (transitive) To refer to (someone) using she/her pronouns.
   • 2019 April 16, Natalia Deeb-Sossa, Community-Based Participatory Research: Testimonios from Chicana/o Studies, University of Arizona Press, →ISBN, page 193:

     If somebody wants to go by “he,” continually “sheing” them [is invalidating].

   • 2023 December 7, Laura L. Paterson, The Routledge Handbook of Pronouns, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN:

     In his conversation with the woman, Ari would 'he' himself using the masculine pronoun and she would reply by consistently 'sheing' him. Such examples share something about the emotional quality of language […]

she

1. (African-American Vernacular) Synonym of her.

• EH&S, EHS, Esh, HSE, ehs, esh, he's, hes, hse

• (Myanmar) /ʃɛ˧/
• (Lianghe) [ʂɛ⁵⁵]
• (Longchuan) [ʂa⁵⁵]
• (Luxi) [sə³⁵]
• (Xiandao) [ʂa⁵⁵]

she

1. to pull, drag

• Inglis, Douglas; Sampu, Nasaw; Jaseng, Wilai; Jana, Thocha (2005), A preliminary Ngochang–Kachin–English Lexicon‎^[4], Payap University, page 116

• shena — Gheg

A derivative of shi.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈʃe/
• Rhymes: -ʃe

she m (plural she, definite sheu, definite plural shetë)

1. undrying rivulet, torrent, rapid stream

• shi

• FGJSSH: Fjalor i gjuhës së sotme shqipe [Dictionary of the modern Albanian language]‎^[5], 1980
• “she”, in FGJSH: Fjalor i gjuhës shqipe [Dictionary of the Albanian language] (in Albanian), 2006
• Mann, S. E. (1948), “shé”, in An Historical Albanian–English Dictionary, London: Longmans, Green & Co., page 470

From s (/ʃ/) +‎ -e.

• IPA^(key): /ʃe/, /ʃɛ/

she (plural she-i)

1. The name of the Latin script letter Q/q.

• Latin script letter names: literi: a · be · ce · che · de · e · fe · ge · he · i · je · ke · le · me · ne · o · pe · que · re · se · she · te · u · ve · we · xe · ye · ze ^[edit]

she

1. The katakana syllable シェ (she) in Hepburn romanization.

she

1. nonstandard spelling of shē
2. nonstandard spelling of shé
3. nonstandard spelling of shě
4. nonstandard spelling of shè

• Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

From Old Irish is ed (“it is so”). Compare Irish sea, Scottish Gaelic seadh.

she (dependent form nee)

1. Present/future copula form

   She ynseyder eh Juan. ― John is a teacher. (definition: predicate is indefinite)

   She Juan yn ynseyder. ― John is the teacher. (identification: predicate is definite)

   She mish honnick eh. ― It's me who saw him. (cleft sentence)

   She Juan ta ny ynseyder. ― It's John who is a teacher. (cleft sentence)

Used in present and future sentences for identification or definition of a subject as the person/object identified in the predicate of the sentence. Used to introduce cleft sentences, which are extremely common in Manx. It is not a verb. For the particle that introduces adjectives, see s'.

She has no past tense; the appropriate conjugation of ve must be used instead.

• Shen va'n soilshey firrinagh.

  That was the true light.

she

1. alternative form of sche

Inherited from Proto-Bantu *-ncè

-she

1. all

• The Word for the World Translation, Nkangala Bible Translation

From Mandarin 十 (shí).

she

1. ten

• Erika Sandman (2016), A Grammar of Wutun‎^[6], University of Helsinki (PhD), →ISBN