sie

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points
3
Words With Friends
3
Letters
3
Pronunciation
/saɪ/
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/saɪ/ · /siː/

Definition of sie

7 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (intransitive)To sink; fall; drop.
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verb

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

noun

  1. A drop.

pron

  1. (gender-neutral, nominative, nonstandard, rare, singular, third-person)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, […]”
    “"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.'”

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

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”).

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