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.)”).
third-person feminine singular nominative pronoun she; it · third-person feminine singular prepositional pronoun her · third-person feminine singular pronoun used in all positions she; it; her
köken: From Old Galician-Portuguese ela, from Latin illa, feminine of ille. Cognate with Galician ela and Spanish ella.
Ela está aqui perto.
Pensei que você tivesse dito que ela estava só mandando você escrever!
he, she, that person over there (third person singular) · he, she, that person both of us know (third person singular) · my husband, partner (of a female speaker)
köken: Calque of Japanese 彼女 (kanojo, “she”, pronoun), coined by Kim Dong-in prior to 1951 as 그 (geu, “that”) + 녀(女) (nyeo, “woman, girl”). The noun meaning was created due to the literary overtones of the pronoun, possibly with influence from Japanese 彼女 (kanojo, “girlfriend”).
she; the third-person, singular, feminine pronoun in the nominative case · it (for certain nouns that were feminine in Old Swedish)
köken: From Old Swedish hōn, from Old Norse hón, from Proto-Germanic *hēnō (compare *ainaz). Cognate with Icelandic hún, Danish hun and Norwegian Bokmål hun.
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…
köken: From Old Norse hón (“she”), from Proto-Norse *ᚺᚨᚾᚢ (*hanu), the feminine form, with u-umlaut, of *ᚺᚨᚾᚨᛉ (*hanaʀ) (= Danish han (“he”), Old Norse hann).