Meanings
sie1
present singular third person sies · participle present sying · participle past sied · past sied · alternative sigh · alternative sey · alternative sye
sie2
accusative sir · adjective possessive hir · noun possessive hirs · reflexive hirself · alternative shi
- 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 1013 more examples
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 7When 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
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*seykʷ-
- Proto-Germanic*sīhwaną
- Proto-Germanic*sīganą
- Proto-West Germanic*sīgan
- Old Englishsīgan
- Middle Englishsien
- 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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