Sie
/saɪ/ noun, pron, verb
noun, pron, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 A drop.
Verb
- 1 To sink; fall; drop. intransitive
- 2 To fall, as in a swoon; faint. intransitive
- 3 To drop, as water; trickle. dialectal, intransitive
- 4 To sift. transitive
- 5 To strain, as milk; filter. dialectal, transitive
Pronoun
- 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, […]"
Synonyms
All synonymsExample
More examples"Do you know when sie is going for holiday?"
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”).