See sie in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "zijgen",
"3": "",
"4": "to filter"
},
"expansion": "Dutch zijgen (“to filter”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "seihen",
"3": "",
"4": "to strain, sieve"
},
"expansion": "German seihen (“to strain, sieve”)",
"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "is",
"2": "síga",
"3": "",
"4": "to lower"
},
"expansion": "Icelandic síga (“to lower”)",
"name": "cog"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Middle English sien, from Old English sīgan (“to sink, descend”), from Proto-Germanic *sīganą, *sīhwaną (“to strain, drop”), from Proto-Indo-European *seyk- (“to pour, strain”). Cognate with Dutch zijgen (“to filter”), German seihen (“to strain, sieve”), Icelandic síga (“to lower”).",
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{
"form": "sies",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
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"related": [
{
"word": "sile"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"A drop."
],
"links": [
[
"drop",
"drop"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/saɪ/"
},
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},
{
"rhymes": "-aɪ"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "sigh"
},
{
"word": "sey"
},
{
"tags": [
"Scotland"
],
"word": "sye"
}
],
"word": "sie"
}
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"English lemmas",
"English pronouns",
"English terms with homophones",
"English third person pronouns",
"Pages with 19 entries",
"Pages with entries",
"en:Fandom",
"en:Gender",
"en:Science fiction",
"en:Transgender"
],
"etymology_number": 2,
"forms": [
{
"form": "sir",
"tags": [
"accusative"
]
},
{
"form": "hir",
"tags": [
"adjective",
"possessive"
]
},
{
"form": "hirs",
"tags": [
"noun",
"possessive"
]
},
{
"form": "hirself",
"tags": [
"reflexive"
]
}
],
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"13": "",
"14": "",
"15": "",
"16": "",
"17": "",
"18": "",
"19": "",
"2": "pronoun",
"20": "",
"3": "third person singular, gender-neutral, nominative case",
"4": "",
"5": "accusative",
"6": "sir",
"7": "possessive adjective",
"8": "hir",
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},
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"name": "head"
},
{
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"4": "hir",
"5": "possessive noun",
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},
"expansion": "sie (third person singular, gender-neutral, nominative case, accusative sir, possessive adjective hir, possessive noun hirs, reflexive hirself)",
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}
],
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"pos": "pron",
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"categories": [
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"English terms with quotations",
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],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1993 September 24, Alex Martelli, “punishment vs ethics (was Re: Discipline my daughters)”, in alt.sex.bondage (Usenet):",
"text": "If the child is about the intellectual equal of the parent, sie will eventually start holding hir own in discussions, […]",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2010 September 16, Jessica Freely, Amaranth and Ash, La Vergne: Lightning Source, →ISBN, page 101:",
"text": "\"You must be Ash,\" sie said, hir voice a shade deeper than Amaranth's.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2011 May 19, Ken Wickham, The Other Genders: Androgyne, Genderqueer, Non-Binary Gender Variant, CreateSpace, →ISBN, page 7:",
"text": "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.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "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:",
"text": "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.'",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Gender-neutral subject pronoun, grammatically equivalent to the gendered pronouns he and she"
],
"links": [
[
"Gender-neutral",
"gender-neutral#English"
],
[
"he",
"he#English"
],
[
"she",
"she#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(rare, nonstandard) Gender-neutral subject pronoun, grammatically equivalent to the gendered pronouns he and she"
],
"tags": [
"gender-neutral",
"nominative",
"nonstandard",
"rare",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/siː/"
},
{
"homophone": "c"
},
{
"homophone": "cee"
},
{
"homophone": "sea"
},
{
"homophone": "see"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "shi"
}
],
"word": "sie"
}
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