sie

S1I1E1
/saɪ//siː/

verb

To sink; fall; drop.

CommonScrabble 3

Meanings

sie1

verbsie (third-person singular simple present sies, present participle sying, simple past and past participle sied)

present singular third person sies · participle present sying · participle past sied · past sied · alternative sigh · alternative sey · alternative sye

  1. intransitiveTo sink; fall; drop.
  2. intransitiveTo fall, as in a swoon; faint.
  3. dialectalintransitiveTo drop, as water; trickle.
  4. transitiveTo sift.
  5. dialectaltransitiveTo strain, as milk; filter.
nounsie (plural sies)

plural sies · alternative sigh · alternative sey · alternative sye

  1. A drop.

sie2

pronounsie (third person singular, gender-neutral, nominative case, accusative sir, possessive adjective hir, possessive noun hirs, reflexive hirself)

accusative sir · adjective possessive hir · noun possessive hirs · reflexive hirself · alternative shi

  1. gender neutralnominativenonstandardraresingularthird personGender-neutral subject pronoun, grammatically equivalent to the gendered pronouns he and she

    "You must be Ash," sie said, hir voice a shade deeper than Amaranth's.

    2010 September 16, Jessica Freely, Amaranth and Ash, La Vergne: Lightning Source, →ISBN, page 101
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    If the child is about the intellectual equal of the parent, sie will eventually start holding hir own in discussions, […]

    1993 September 24, Alex Martelli, “punishment vs ethics (was Re: Discipline my daughters)”, in alt.sex.bondage (Usenet)

    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.

    2011 May 19, Ken Wickham, The Other Genders: Androgyne, Genderqueer, Non-Binary Gender Variant, CreateSpace, →ISBN, page 7

    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.'

    2011 August 16, Petra Kuppers, Disability Culture and Community Performance: Find a Strange and Twisted Shape, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, →LCCN, LCC PN1590.H36 K87 2011, page 18

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Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*seykʷ-
  2. Proto-Germanic*sīhwaną
  3. Proto-Germanic*sīganą
  4. Proto-West Germanic*sīgan
  5. Old Englishsīgan
  6. Middle Englishsien
  7. Englishsie

From Middle English sien, from Old English sīgan (“to sink, descend”), from Proto-Germanic *sīganą, *sīhwaną (“to strain, drop”), from Proto-Indo-European *seykʷ- (“to pour, strain”). Cognate with Dutch zijgen (“to filter”), German seihen (“to strain, sieve”), Icelandic síga (“to lower”).

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