sie
A drop.
Noun
- A drop.
Origin
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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Pronoun
- Gender-neutral subject pronoun, grammatically equivalent to the gendered pronouns he and she
- 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...
- "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:
- 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. -...
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Verb
- To sink; fall; drop.
- To fall, as in a swoon; faint.
- To drop, as water; trickle.
- To sift.
- To strain, as milk; filter.