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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

hersen en · PRON

Pronunciation

  • /hɝˈsɛn/ (General-American)
  • /ɚˈsɛn/ (General-American)
  • /əˈsɛn/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /hɜːˈsɛn/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From Middle English hirselven, hireselven, hurre-selfen, equivalent to her + sen (“self”).

Meanings

  1. (dialectal) Herself.
    • She barely came to church, holed hersen up in that house and roamed moors alone every night! She cursed hersen by letting in Devil and brought a curse down on the whole valley! 2013, Karen Perkins, Thores-Cross: