sie
verbnounpronounattested in dialogue
- //saɪ//
- //siː//
To sink; fall; drop.
verb
- 1
To sink; fall; drop.
- 2
To fall, as in a swoon; faint.
- 3
To drop, as water; trickle.
- 4
To sift.
- 5
To strain, as milk; filter.
Etymology
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”).
noun
- 1
A drop.
pronoun
- 1
rareGender-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, […]
"You must be Ash," sie said, hir voice a shade deeper than Amaranth's.
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.
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.'
Forms
- plural
- sies
- past tense
- sied
- past participle
- sied
- present participle
- sying
- third person singular
- sies