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Sie

//saɪ// noun, pron, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A drop.
Pronoun
  1. 1
    Gender-neutral subject pronoun, grammatically equivalent to the gendered pronouns he and she gender-neutral, nominative, nonstandard, rare, singular, third-person

    "If the child is about the intellectual equal of the parent, sie will eventually start holding hir own in discussions, […]"

Verb
  1. 1
    To sink; fall; drop. intransitive
  2. 2
    To fall, as in a swoon; faint. intransitive
  3. 3
    To drop, as water; trickle. dialectal, intransitive
  4. 4
    To sift. transitive
  5. 5
    To strain, as milk; filter. dialectal, transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

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”).

Etymology 2

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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