✨Archaicpronouns✨ (also known as hēopronouns, though that's a term I coined lol)
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Are Modern English pronouns just too darn new for you? And neopronouns just don't sit right? Well, then it's time to return to tradition with
✨Archaicpronouns✨
Taken from Old English, these pronouns were used by our ancestors. Since transphobes say neopronouns and they/them are just too new to understand, let's go back to Old English and gender each other like they did in the pre-Shakespearean era!
What are these pronouns, you may ask?
Here they are:
hē/hine/his/(him) (Ex: Hē is my best friend. I love hine. His smile makes me happy.)
hit/hit/his/(him) (Ex: Hit is my best friend. I love hit. His smile makes me happy.)
hēo/hīe/hiere /(hiere) (Ex: Hēo is my best friend. I love hīe. Hiere smile makes me happy.)
*hīe/hīe/heora/(heom) (Ex: Hīe is my best friend. I love hīe. Heora smile makes me happy.
Something else that is unique in these pronouns is the use of a dative form, shown in parentheses in each pronoun set, but I did not use them in the examples. While in Modern English, we do not often have dative forms of pronouns, we did in Old English. Genitive forms are also known as possessive determiner pronouns (such as his, their, or her). In Old English these are his, his, and hiere. Genitive pronouns are used to refer to the person when they are a direct object. On the other hand, dative pronouns are used to refer to the person when they are an indirect object. Nowadays, we use genitive forms regardless of whether they are a direct or indirect object.
It's best to not use dative forms in addition to genitive forms if you want to use Old English pronouns for yourself, because it's a whole other grammatical rule and can get confusing.
*Note that the fourth pronoun set is a plural pronoun set - not unlike common use of "they" today. To my knowledge, this pronoun set was not used as a singular. It might make more sense to be used by say, plural systems, however anyone can use it.