sie

名词 n. 动词 v. 代词 pron.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A drop.
动词 v.
  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
代词 pron.
  1. Gender-neutral subject pronoun, grammatically equivalent to the gendered pronouns he and she gender-neutral,nominative,nonstandard,rare,singular
    — If the child is about the intellectual equal of the parent, sie will eventually start holding hir own in discussions, […]

词形变化

sies present,singular,third-person sying participle,present sied participle,past sied past sigh alternative sey alternative sye alternative sies plural sigh alternative sey alternative sye alternative sir accusative hir adjective,possessive hirs noun,possessive hirself reflexive shi alternative

词源

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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