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third-person singular simple present sies, present participle sying, simple past and past participle sied
(intransitive) To sink; fall; drop. examples
(intransitive) To fall, as in a swoon; faint. examples
(intransitive, dialectal) To drop, as water; trickle. examples
(transitive) To sift. examples
(transitive, dialectal) To strain, as milk; filter. examples
plural sies
A drop. examples
third person singular, gender-neutral, nominative case, accusative sir, possessive adjective hir, possessive noun hirs, reflexive hirself
(rare, nonstandard) Gender-neutral subject pronoun, grammatically equivalent to the gendered pronouns he and she quotations
If the child is about the intellectual equal of the parent, sie will eventually start holding hir own in discussions, […]
1993 September 24, Alex Martelli, “punishment vs ethics (was Re: Discipline my daughters)”, in alt.sex.bondage (Usenet)
"You must be Ash," sie said, hir voice a shade deeper than Amaranth's.
2010 September 16, Jessica Freely, Amaranth and Ash, La Vergne: Lightning Source, page 101
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.
2011 May 19, Ken Wickham, The Other Genders: Androgyne, Genderqueer, Non-Binary Gender Variant, CreateSpace, page 7
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.'
2011 August 16, Petra Kuppers, Disability Culture and Community Performance: Find a Strange and Twisted Shape, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, LCC PN1590.H36 K87 2011, page 18