sie English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .
Alternative forms
* (l)
* (l), (l) (Scotland)
Verb
To sink; fall; drop.
To fall, as in a swoon; faint.
(dialectal) To drop, as water; trickle.
To sift.
(dialectal) To strain, as milk; filter.
Related terms
* (l)
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
* (l)
Pronoun
(neologism)
* 1993 September 24, Alex Martelli, "punishment vs ethics (was Re: Discipline my daughters)", in alt.sex.bondage, Usenet :
- If the child is about the intellectual equal of the parent, sie will eventually start holding hir own in discussions,
* {{quote-book
, year = 2010
, date = September 16
, title = Amaranth and Ash
, author = Jessica Freely
, publisher = Lightning Source
, location = La Vergne
, isbn = 9781461136620
, page = 101
, passage = "You must be Ash," sie said, hir voice a shade deeper than Amaranth's.
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=WpHMcQAACAAJ
}}
* {{quote-book
, year = 2011
, date = May 19
, title = The Other Genders: Androgyne, Genderqueer, Non-Binary Gender Variant
, author = Ken Wickham
, publisher = CreateSpace
, isbn = 9781461136620
, page = 7
, passage = Sie may feel that hir actual identity of hir gender is supposed to be both/neither male or female, outside of gender, third gender, beyond gender, absence of gender, mixing gender, changing gender, or all genders.
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=zWmWZwEACAAJ
}}
* {{quote-book
, year = 2011
, date = August 16
, title = Disability Culture and Community Performance: Find a Strange and Twisted Shape
, author = Petra Kuppers
, publisher = Palgrave Macmillan
, location = New York
, isbn = 9780230298279
, id =
, lccn = 2011012058
, page = 18
, passage = When I asked hir about hir preferred self-identification in this scene, sie' offered me this language, '' sie sharply performs the hotness of teasing all the audience from the edge-space of androgyny.'
, url = http://books.google.com/books?id=jAP1tgAACAAJ
}}
Synonyms
* (gender-neutral) he or she,
* (gender-neutral) (singular) they
* (gender-neutral) (neologism) e, ey, shi, ze, per
Anagrams
*
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saie English
Verb
(head)
* {{quote-book, year=1594, author=Thomas Nash, title=The Vnfortunate Traveller, or The Life Of Jack Wilton, chapter=, edition= citation
, passage=What stratagemicall actes and monuments do you thinke an ingenious infant of my age might enact? you will saie , it were sufficient if he slurre a die, pawne his master to the vtmost pennie, & minister the oath on the pantoffle arteficially. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1602, author=William Shakespeare, title=The Merry Wives of Windsor, chapter=, edition= citation
, passage=By the Lord thou art a traitor to saie so: What made me loue thee? }}
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