ve

ve · noun¹

1. Russian · borrowed fromвэ
2. Russian · borrowed fromвэ
3. English todayve

Borrowed from Russian вэ (vɛ).

ve · pronoun²

First proposed by Philologus in the July 1864 Ladies' Repository, with possessive vis and objective vim, as an alternative to using "he or she," singular they, or one in sentences without a specified gender. In 1970, Varda One proposed ve, vis and objective ver in a feminist article titled "Manglish." Greg Egan used the pronouns throughout the novels Distress (1995) and Diaspora (1998).