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伊 (yī): Proposed as an exclusively female pronoun and was use from 1870-1930 before 她 became default.<ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_pronouns#Development_of_written_gender_and_object_differentiation</ref><ref>https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E4%BC%8A#Etymology_1</ref><ref>https://www.harvard-yenching.org/research/cultural-history-of-the-chinese-character-ta/</ref> This usage is now considered obsolete. In some modern dialects it can be used regardless of gender.

渠 (qú): Was use since 4th to 5th century C.E., and can be used to refer to someone regardless of gender.<ref>https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E6%B8%A0#Etymology_1</ref> It is preserved in some dialects as 佢.<ref>Schuessler, Axel (2007). ABC Etymological Dictionary of Old Chinese, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press</ref><ref>https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E4%BD%A2#Chinese</ref>

其 (qí): A possessive pronoun used in Classical literary Chinese.<ref>http://chinesenotes.com/words/1574.html</ref> It was used regardless of gender. In modern Chinese it occasionally appear in idioms.

In Old English pronouns had an additional case known as the dative case, which is not used in modern English, as the accusative and dative of pronouns merged into a single case.<ref>https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Old_English/Pronouns</ref><ref>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dative_case#English</ref> Archaeopronoun users typically drop this form of the pronoun.

The concept of archeopronouns has existed since at least August 15, 2019, with one of the first mentions of it by Tumblr user carbonated-neon.<ref>https://carbonated-neon.tumblr.com/post/187041174948/more-labels-for-things</ref>