Refers to a neuter noun (person, animal, thing or abstract) · he (when the grammatical gender of the noun being referred to and designating a male person, is neuter [das]) · she (when the grammatical gender of the noun being referred to and designating a feminine person, is neuter [das])
köken: From Middle High German ëȥ, from Old High German iȥ, from Proto-Germanic *it (“it”). Compare English it, which instead descends from Proto-Germanic *hit (“it”).