it (when the object/article/thing/animal etc., referred to, is feminine [die]) · he (when the grammatical gender of the noun being referred to and designating a male person, is feminine [die])
köken: From Middle High German siu, si, from Old High German siu, si, from Proto-West Germanic *si(j)u, *sī, from Proto-Germanic *sī (see Proto-Germanic *iz). Cognate with Gothic 𐍃𐌹 (si) and Old English sēo (“that one (f.)”).
köken: Inherited from Chagatai اولار (ʾwlār), from Proto-Turkic *o-lar. By surface analysis, u (“that; he/she/it”) + -lar (plural suffix). Cognate with Uyghur ئۇلار / ular / улар. Compare also Azerbaijani اونلار / онлар / onlar and Turkish onlar.
that; referring to a thing or a person further away. · those; referring to things or people further away. · a certain, a particular; some; this; referring to a thing or a person invisible or unknown to the audience.
eş: dat
köken: From Middle Dutch die, a merger of Old Dutch thie, thē, thia, thiu and similar forms of the demonstrative. As in Old High German ther, der it replaced the original masculine and feminine nominative forms from Proto-Germanic *sa.
this one; he; she; it (proximal third person singular personal pronoun)
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *éy Proto-Indo-European *só Proto-Indo-Iranian *ayšá Sanskrit ए॒ष (eṣá) Prakrit एसो (eso) Apabhramsa एहु (ehu) Old Hindi यहु (yahu) Hindi यह Inherited from Old Hindi यहु (yahu), from Apabhramsa एहु m (ehu), एह f (eha), from Prakrit 𑀏𑀲𑁄 m (eso), 𑀏𑀲𑀸 f (esā), from Sanskrit एषः m (eṣaḥ), एषा f (eṣā).
he, she, one, they sg (only of a human being; gender-neutral)
eş: se
köken: From Proto-Finnic *hän (compare Estonian enda, Veps hän), from Proto-Finno-Ugric *sän (compare Northern Sami son, Erzya сон (son), Komi-Zyrian сійӧ (sijö), Hungarian ő). In practically all dialects (except potentially Ingrian Finnish), se is the most common third-person pronoun for people, and this is also reflected in colloquial Finnish. hän was most often used in indirect speech (as a…