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New evidence from the extinct Dutch-lexified creole Skepi has brought to light the pronoun  or  as its third person plural form. This article proposes that  or  is a cognate of standard Dutch  haar  ‘her’, which in Early Modern Dutch also functioned as a plural pronoun meaning ‘them, their’ (present-day standard Dutch  hun∼hen ). As such, the article provides a window into a largely forgotten chapter of Dutch pronominal history: the polysemous role of  haar  as both a singular feminine and all-gender plural pronoun. We revisit that chapter, focusing on the use of  haar  as a plural object pronoun (‘them’). The article reconstructs the diachronic development of  haar  in that role and traces its synchronic distribution in modern non-standard varieties of Dutch, Frisian, and Low German. Finally, we examine the dialectal provenance of Skepi  or , with Zeelandic emerging as the primary suspect.

The history of Dutch haar as a plural object pronoun and the provenance of Skepi or