Sie vs Sie - What's the difference?
sie | sie |
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.
(neologism)
* 1993 September 24, Alex Martelli, "punishment vs ethics (was Re: Discipline my daughters)", in alt.sex.bondage, Usenet :
* {{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
}}
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.
(neologism)
* 1993 September 24, Alex Martelli, "punishment vs ethics (was Re: Discipline my daughters)", in alt.sex.bondage, Usenet :
* {{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
}}
In intransitive terms the difference between sie and sie
is that sie is to fall, as in a swoon; faint while sie is to fall, as in a swoon; faint.In intransitive dialectal terms the difference between sie and sie
is that sie is to drop, as water; trickle while sie is to drop, as water; trickle.In transitive terms the difference between sie and sie
is that sie is to sift while sie is to sift.In transitive dialectal terms the difference between sie and sie
is that sie is to strain, as milk; filter while sie is to strain, as milk; filter.In neologism terms the difference between sie and sie
is that sie is Gender-neutral (or multigendered) subject pronoun, grammatically equivalent to the gendered pronouns he and she, or singular theysie is Gender-neutral (or multigendered) subject pronoun, grammatically equivalent to the gendered pronouns he and she, or singular theysie
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l) * (l), (l) (Scotland)Verb
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
* (l)Pronoun
- If the child is about the intellectual equal of the parent, sie will eventually start holding hir own in discussions,
Synonyms
* (gender-neutral) he or she, * (gender-neutral) (singular) they * (gender-neutral) (neologism) e, ey, shi, ze, perAnagrams
*See also
* other gender-neutral pronouns English third person pronouns ----sie
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (l) * (l), (l) (Scotland)Verb
Etymology 2
Alternative forms
* (l)Pronoun
- If the child is about the intellectual equal of the parent, sie will eventually start holding hir own in discussions,