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Sie vs Sire - What's the difference?

sie | sire |

In transitive terms the difference between sie and sire

is that sie is to sift while sire is of a male: to procreate; to father, beget.

As verbs the difference between sie and sire

is that sie is to sink; fall; drop while sire is of a male: to procreate; to father, beget.

As nouns the difference between sie and sire

is that sie is a drop while sire is a lord, master, or other person in authority, most commonly used vocatively: formerly in speaking to elders and superiors, later only when addressing a sovereign.

As a pronoun sie

is Gender-neutral (or multigendered) subject pronoun, grammatically equivalent to the gendered pronouns he and she, or singular they

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.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A drop.
    • 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

    *

    See also

    * other gender-neutral pronouns English third person pronouns ----

    sire

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A lord, master, or other person in authority, most commonly used vocatively: formerly in speaking to elders and superiors, later only when addressing a sovereign.
  • A male animal; a stud, especially a horse or dog, that has fathered another.
  • (obsolete) A father; the head of a family; the husband.
  • * Shakespeare
    • And raise his issue, like a loving sire .
  • (obsolete) A creator; a maker; an author; an originator.
  • * Shelley
    • [He] was the sire of an immortal strain.

    Verb

    (sir)
  • Of a male: to procreate; to father, beget.
  • * 1994 , Nelson Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , Abacus 2010, p. 6:
    • In these travels, my father sired thirteen children in all, four boys and nine girls.

    Anagrams

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