From Middle English it, hit ( > dialectal English hit), from Old English hit ("it"), from Proto-Germanic *hit, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱe-, *ḱey-. Cognate with West Frisian it ("it"), Saterland Frisian et, 't, Low German it ("it"), Dutch het ("it"), German es ("it"), Latin cis, hic. More at he.
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