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sie | xe | Synonyms |

Sie is a synonym of xe.


As pronouns the difference between sie and xe

is that sie is (neologism) while xe is (label) they (singular).

As a verb sie

is to sink; fall; drop.

As a noun sie

is a drop.

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 ----

    xe

    English

    Pronoun

    (English Pronouns)
  • (label) they (singular).
  • * {{quote-web
    • , year = 1992 , first = Jim , last = Sinclair , title = If you could choose... , site = Jim Sinclair's Web Site , url = http://web.syr.edu/~jisincla/choice.htm , archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20031103004908/http://web.syr.edu/~jisincla/choice.htm , archivedate = 2003-11-03 , passage = Anyone I would be interested in would have to be a pretty special person. I wouldn't want to miss out on knowing such a person just because xe happened to be the "wrong" sex. }}
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
    • , date = 1993-09-14 , first = Jim , last = Sinclair , title = Re: Jim and Steve's snoring discussion , newsgroup = bit.listserv.autism , id = AUTISM%93091417074261@SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU , url = https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups
  • !msg/bit.listserv.autism/2pyrOMzt_nQ/5J-RU5P3hnIJ
    • , passage = Telepathy would require that you share the other person's knowledge of xyr own mind, which in turn requires recognizing that xe' is actually aware of what ' xe' s thinking, which is incompatible with psychiatry. }}
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
    • , date = 1999-04-28 , first = Dagmar , last = Alpen , title = Re: Think of a small tribe of people... , newsgroup = talk.politics.libertarian , id = 7g74qb$8sq$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de , url = https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups
  • !msg/talk.politics.libertarian/Wxi8N4PwnW0/yRrhhmYAGygJ
    • , passage = Now full ownership in the modern sense... implies four rights of the owner: 1. The right to decide what xe does with xyr property; 2. the right to decide what others do with xyr property; }}
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
    • , date = 2000-12-11 , title = Silencing and ad hominem attacks , first = Mary Ellen , last = Curtin , newsgroup = alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated , id = 074d01c06393$c1a2fb00$5be9cfcf@default , url = http://groups.google.com/group/alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated/msg/3a23ecdc585ca8b1 , passage = Since xe' went to the trouble of re-posting, I figured it was about something of more than usual importance to hir... I wrote to EmGee privately and '''xe''' said yes, that was one of the things ' xe was talking about. }}
  • * {{quote-newsgroup
    • , date = 2002-03-03 , title = Re: Newbie...not quite sure yet... , first = Ken , last = von Mattell , newsgroup = alt.suicide.holiday , id = rif48uc0ja9q3km9o2jf167d4u4o3qpk1k@4ax.com , url = https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups
  • !msg/alt.suicide.holiday/azDueNoiilA/JtxS4uc12pkJ
    • , passage = I mean, suppose there's someone who can't leave the house because xe''s all tied up with counting tiles in the bathroom all day, and if ' xe manages to get done with that, there's the stove to check again and again ... you get the idea. }}

    Declension

    * Subject: xe * Object: xem (or hir) * Possessive: xyr or xir (or hir) * Reflexive: xyrself or xirself (perhaps rarely xemself)

    Synonyms

    * (singular) they * (neologism) e, ey, sie, ze, per

    Hyponyms

    * he, she

    See also

    * other gender-neutral pronouns

    Anagrams

    * English third person pronouns ----