Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To sink; fall; drop; fall, as in a swoon.
- To drop, as water; trickle.
- To sift.
- To strain, as milk.
- n. A drop.
- n. An obsolete preterit of see.
Wiktionary
- v. intransitive To sink; fall; drop.
- v. intransitive To fall, as in a swoon; faint.
- v. intransitive, dialectal To drop, as water; trickle.
- v. transitive To sift.
- v. transitive, dialectal To strain, as milk; filter.
- n. A drop.
- pro. neologism Gender-neutral (or multigendered) subject pronoun, grammatically equivalent to the gendered pronouns he and she, or singular they
Etymologies
- From Middle English sien, from Old English sīgan ("to pass from a higher to a lower position, sink, descend, decline, fall, fall down, move towards a point, advance, go, go to, approach, ooze, run as matter, strain, filter, act as a filter"), from Proto-Germanic *sīganan, *sīhwanan (“to strain, drop”), from Proto-Indo-European *seik- (“to pour, strain”). Cognate with Dutch zijgen ("to filter"), German seihen ("to strain, sieve"), Icelandic síga ("to lower"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Gautier could cast himself as a seeker of truth unencumbered by alliances with established scientists, a doubter who discovered faults in prevailing theories but was prevented from receiving the acclaim he deserved. reference The presentation in Chroa-génésie is so convoluted that it is unintelligible without a good knowledge of the physics and mathematics that render its deficiencies obvious.”
“Uns, die wir Ihrer Dichtung begegnet sind und den Vorteil hatten uns in sie zu vertiefen, scheint sie notwendig und unentbehrlich um das 20.”
“And I'd say "sie" because machines are feminine in German especially sewing machines of courseI'm struggling with "Neuer Schwung in der Hausschneiderei" too.”
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“Sie wurden mit Global Voice Bloggern verbunden, die sie virtuell für 6 Wochen mit dem Bloggen betreuten.”
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“Im Laufe der letzten 3 Monate hat MS ActionAid Dänemark ein Team von online und offline Aktivisten dazu ausgebildet ihre Botschaften zu überbringen und hat sie auf Forschungs-Missionen nach Kenia, Brüssel und Dänemark geschickt.”
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“Deutsch · Arabische Welt: "Lasst die Iraner tun, was sie wollen”
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“Jetzt hoffen bestimmt einige, dass du gewinnst, damit sie dann dein gekauftes Buch abstauben können.”
“Ich bin soweit möglich in der Realität geblieben, weil ich wollte, dass die Heldin realisiert, dass die Welt, wie sie sie kennt, nicht alles ist.”
“Ihr allererster paranormaler Romantic Suspense erscheint nächste Woche – und sie hat sich bereit erklärt, hier vorbeizuschauen und Fragen zu beantworten, also nur zu, überfallt sie damit!”
“Ein Skandal hat dazu geführt, dass sie New York verlassen hat und nach Mariposa, eine Kleinstadt in Kalifornien in der Nähe des Yosemite National Parks, gezogen ist.”
Lists
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Still More Bird Wirds
A work in progress....Birds from around the world (other than endemic to North America).
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bilby "Personal pronouns and adjectives are a fruitful nuisance in this language, and should have been left out. For instance, the same sound, sie, means you, and it means she, and it means her, and it means it, and it means they, and it means them. Think of the ragged poverty of a language which has to make one word do the work of six -- and a poor little weak thing of only three letters at that. But mainly, think of the exasperation of never knowing which of these meanings the speaker is trying to convey. This explains why, whenever a person says sie to me, I generally try to kill him, if a stranger."
- Mark Twain, 'The Awful German Language', 1880.
Aug 21, 2008
john Gender-neutral pronoun. Oct 11, 2007