sche

See also: -'sche and -sche

Middle English

Alternative forms

she, che, se, sheo, scheo, scheu, scheue, ȝho, sse, sso, sȝheo, sce, sge, xe, scæ, shoe, schou, schowe, shouȝ, shue, schu, schue, shae, scha, schoe, sco, cho, so, sho, scho, shoy, schoy, cheo, choy, sheu, shou, shuo, xhe

Etymology

From Old English hēo, hīo (“she”), from Proto-Germanic *hijō f (“this, this one”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey- (“this, here”).

Pronoun

sche (accusative hire, his, genitive hire, possessive determiner hires)

Third-person singular feminine pronoun: she
It; used also of inanimate objects

Usage notes

In addition to referring to female humans and animals, this pronoun was used for inanimate objects belonging to the feminine grammatical gender early in Middle English. As grammatical gender obsolesced, this pronoun continued to refer to inanimate objects.

Descendants

English: she
Scots: scho, shu

References

“she, (pron.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 9 May 2018.

Romansch

Etymology

From Latin sī.

Conjunction

sche

if

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