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sie¹
- /saɪ/
Sounds like sigh, sai, psi, xi, scye, Si, Sy, Cy · Rhymes with -aɪ
Where it comes from
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”).
verb sies · sying · sied · sigh · sey
- To sink; fall; drop.
- To fall, as in a swoon; faint.
- To drop, as water; trickle.
- To sift.
- To strain, as milk; filter.
noun sies · sigh · sey · sye
- A drop.
sie²
- /siː/
pronoun sir · hir · hirs · hirself · shi
- 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, […]
