different between sie vs sipe

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English sien, from Old English s?gan (“to sink, descend”), from Proto-Germanic *s?gan?, *s?hwan? (“to strain, drop”), from Proto-Indo-European *seyk- (“to pour, strain”). Cognate with Dutch zijgen (“to filter”), German seihen (“to strain, sieve”), Icelandic síga (“to lower”).

Alternative forms

• sigh
• sey, sye (Scotland)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa?/
• Rhymes: -a?

Verb

sie (third-person singular simple present sies, present participle sying, simple past and past participle sied)

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

Noun

sie (plural sies)

1. A drop.

Related terms

• sile

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

• Homophones: c, cee, sea, see

Pronoun

sie (third person singular, gender-neutral, nominative case, accusative sir, possessive adjective hir, possessive noun hirs, reflexive hirself)

1. (rare) Gender-neutral subject pronoun, grammatically equivalent to the gendered pronouns he and she
   • 1993 September 24, Alex Martelli, "punishment vs ethics (was Re: Discipline my daughters)", in alt.sex.bondage, Usenet:

     If the child is about the intellectual equal of the parent, sie will eventually start holding hir own in discussions, […]

Alternative forms

• shi

Synonyms

• see Appendix:English third-person singular pronouns

Anagrams

• -ies, -ise, EIS, EIs, ESI, I'se, ISE, ies, sei

Chibcha

Noun

sie

1. water

References

• Comparative Chibchan Phonology (1981)

Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sie?/, [?s?ie??]
• Rhymes: -ie
• Syllabification: sie

Pronoun

sie (stem siu-)

1. (personal, dialectal) you (singular; in archaic English: thou).

Synonyms

• sinä (standard Finnish)
• sä (colloquial)
• sää (dialectal)

Anagrams

• eis, esi-, ies, sei

German

Alternative forms

• se, -se (enclitic; colloquial)

Pronunciation

• (standard) IPA^(key): /zi?/

• Rhymes: -i?

• (colloquially in unstressed position) IPA^(key): /z?/

Etymology 1

From Old High German siu, from Proto-West Germanic *s?, from Proto-Germanic *s?. Cognate with Gothic ???????? (si) and Old English s?o (“that one (f.)”).

Pronoun

sie f

1. she

2. it (when the object/article/thing/animal etc., referred to, is feminine (die))

Declension

• The genitive case ihrer is more and more rarely used in modern German.
• While the genitive of personal pronouns does express ownership, it must not be confused with possessive pronouns. While possessive pronouns such as ihr are put in front of the noun they relate to and follow the inflection rules of adjectives, the genitive form of personal pronouns has only one form, which is not further inflected. Additionally, personal pronouns in the genitive can be put after the word they relate to.

Related terms

• hatse (hat + -se)

Etymology 2

From Old High German sie (masculine plural), sio (feminine plural), siu (neuter plural).

Pronoun

sie pl

1. they; them

Declension

Usage notes

• In the colloquial speech of some areas, this pronoun is used only enclitically after a verb, as an ending /z?/. E.g. hamse, könnse. Stressed instances are replaced with the demonstrative pronoun die. This reflects a similar development for es/das.
• While the genitive of personal pronouns does express ownership, it must not be confused with possessive pronouns. While possessive pronouns such as ihr are put in front of the noun they relate to and follow the inflection rules of adjectives, the genitive form of a personal pronoun has only one form, which is not further inflected. Additionally, personal pronouns in the genitive can be put after the word they relate to.

Anagrams

• sei
• Eis

Further reading

• “sie” in Duden online

Hunsrik

Alternative forms

• sii (Wiesemann spelling system)

Etymology 1

From Old High German siu; cognate with Gothic ???????? (si) and Old English s?o (“that one (f.)”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si?/

Pronoun

sie

1. she

Inflection

Etymology 2

From Old High German sie (masculine plural), sio (feminine plural), siu (neuter plural).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si?/

Pronoun

sie

1. they

Inflection

Further reading

• Online Hunsrik Dictionary

Ingrian

Noun

sie

1. binding

Iu Mien

Etymology

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *ts?je (“hungry”). Cognate with White Hmong tshaib and Western Xiangxi Miao [Fenghuang] xib.

Adjective

sie 

1. hungry

Karelian

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *cinä, from Proto-Uralic *tinä. Cognates include Finnish sinä and Estonian sina.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sie?/

Pronoun

sie

1. thou, you (singular)

Declension

See also

References

• P. M. Zaykov (1999) ?????????? ??????????? ????? (???????? ? ??????????) [Grammar of the Karelian language (phonetics and morphology)], ?ISBN, page 58

Kven

Etymology

From Finnish sinä, from Proto-Finnic *cinä, from Proto-Uralic *tinä.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sie?/

Pronoun

sie

1. thou, you (singular)

Declension

See also

References

• Eira Söderholm (2017) Kvensk grammatikk, Tromsø: Cappelen Damm Akademisk, ?ISBN, page 276

Middle Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si?/, /si/

Pronoun

sie

1. Alternative form of si (both feminine singular and all plural)

Middle Low German

Pronunciation

• Stem vowel: ê?
  • IPA^(key): /si?/, /si?/

Pronoun

sie

1. Alternative form of sê.

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si?y?/

Verb

s?e

1. first/second/third-person singular present subjunctive of wesan

Old Saxon

Alternative forms

• sia

Pronoun

sie m or f

1. she (accusative)
2. they

Declension

Descendants

• Low German: se

Pennsylvania German

Etymology

Compare German sie.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si?/

Pronoun

sie

1. she
2. they

Declension

Romanian

Alternative forms

• sie?i

Etymology

From Latin sibi.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?si.e/

Pronoun

sie

1. (rare) (to) himself/herself/itself/themselves (stressed reflexive-dative form of el, ea, ei and ele)

Derived terms

• sie?i

Related terms

• î?i (unstressed form)

English

Etymology

From Old English sipian, related to seep.

• around 888 AD, K Aelfred, translation of Boethius, Chapter 33, para.5 ,

"Seo eore hit helt & be sumum dæle swil, & for am sype heo bi eleht."

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sa?p/

Noun

sipe (plural sipes)

1. (US) Slit in a tire to drain away surface water and improve traction.
2. (Britain, dialect) A drain.

Verb

sipe (third-person singular simple present sipes, present participle siping, simple past and past participle siped)

1. (US) To cut grooves in tires.
2. (intransitive, Britain) To drain, to filter through peat or reeds; to seep.

Anagrams

• EPIs, Epis, Peis, Seip, epis, ipes, pies, pisé, spie

Serbo-Croatian

Noun

sipe (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. inflection of sipa:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative/vocative plural