Etimology
From Middle English him, from Old English him, from Proto-Germanic *himmai (“to this, to this one”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian him (“him”), West Frisian him (“him”), Sylt North Frisian ham, höm (“him”), Dutch hem (“him”), German Low German hum, hüm, em (“him”), German ihm (“him”, dative).
pronoun
him (personal pronoun, objective case)
A masculine pronoun; he as a grammatical object.
(colloquial) As a grammatical subject or object when joined with a conjunction.
(now rare) Used reflexively: (to) himself. [from 9th c.]
With nominative effect: he, especially as a predicate after be, or following a preposition. [from 15th c.]
(slang) A person of elevated skill at a sport, game, or other activity.
Examples
[…] therfoꝛ Chꝛiſt wold not call him abominable / But the verye abomination it ſilf.
‘I promise,’ he said as I gave him the papers.
She was in no humour for conversation with anyone but himself; and to him she had hardly courage to speak.
‘He's got it buttoned in his breast. I saw him put it there.’
Now him and Bernie are best friends.
Released a [statement] warning that him and 25,000 troops were going to stage a coup.
Apon a daye apoynted, the kynge arayed hym in royall apparell, and set hym in his seate, and made an oracion unto them.
Though poor the peasant’s hut, his feasts though small,He sees his little lot the lot of all;[...]But calm, and bred in ignorance and toil,Each wish contracting, fits him to the soil.
Before my body, I throw my warlike Shield: Lay on Macduffe, And damn'd be him, that first cries hold, enough.
Lowe quit the West Wing last year amid rumours that he was unhappy that his co-stars earned more than him.
Stop trying that, you're not him bro.
Bro thinks he's him.
Watched this one live, he randomly got it less than an hour into the stream while derusting for PACE. He's just him.
noun
him (plural hims)
(informal) A male person or animal.
Examples
Synonym: he
I think this bird is a him, but it may be a her.
[…] daring dizzying passages in other, fleeting and passionate dwellings within the hims and hers whom she inhabits […]
Both hims took a good look at him.
By this time, she had so many questions, but she only hit him up for one answer about those “hims” and “hers.” She asked, “Do both hims and hers reproduce hummers?”