here

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   In or at this place, where the speaker is.

   You wait here while I fetch my coat.

2. 2
   adv

   To this place, especially towards the speaker.

   Please come here.

3. 3
   adv

   At this point in a situation or discussion.

   What do we have here?

4. 4
   noun

   This place or location.

   Here is where I met my wife twelve years ago.

5. 5
   intj

   Said when offering or handing something to someone.

   Here, I'm giving it to you now.

From Middle English her, from Old English hēr (“at this place”), from Proto-West Germanic *hēr, from Proto-Germanic *hē₂r, from *hiz + *-r, from Proto-Indo-European *kís, from *ḱe + *ís. Cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian hier, West Frisian hjir, Dutch hier, German Low German hier, German hier, Danish her, Swedish här, Norwegian her, Faroese her, Icelandic hér. Also related to the English pronoun he (“this/that person”), and the words hither (“to this place”) and hence (“from this place”).

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