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English
Etymology
Apparently independently invented by several people, including Don Rickter (the pronoun appeared in the Unitarian Universalist publication UU World on 1 May 1973 and Mario Pei gave Rickter credit on page 145 of his 1978 book Weasel Words).
Pronunciation
- (UK) enPR: zē, hē, ksē, IPA(key): /ziː/, /hiː/, /ksiː/
- (US) enPR: zē, hē, ksē, IPA(key): /zi/, /hi/, /ksi/
- Rhymes: -iː
- Homophones: he, z
Pronoun
xe (third-person singular, gender-neutral, nominative case, oblique xem, reflexive xyrself, possessive xyr)
- (nonstandard) they (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.
1992, Jim Sinclair, “If you could choose...”, in Jim Sinclair's Web Site, archived from the original on 3 November 2003:Anyone I would be interested in would have to be a pretty special person. I wouldn't want to miss out on knowing such a person just because xe happened to be the "wrong" sex.
1993 September 14, Jim Sinclair, “Re: Jim and Steve's snoring discussion”, in bit.listserv.autism (Usenet), message-ID <AUTISM%[email protected]>:Telepathy would require that you share the other person's knowledge of xyr own mind, which in turn requires recognizing that xe is actually aware of what xe's thinking, which is incompatible with psychiatry.
1999 April 28, Dagmar Alpen, “Re: Think of a small tribe of people...”, in talk.politics.libertarian (Usenet), message-ID <[email protected]>:Now full ownership in the modern sense... implies four rights of the owner: 1. The right to decide what xe does with xyr property; 2. the right to decide what others do with xyr property; […]
2000 December 11, Mary Ellen Curtin, “Silencing and ad hominem attacks”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated (Usenet), message-ID <074d01c06393$c1a2fb00$5be9cfcf@default>:Since xe went to the trouble of re-posting, I figured it was about something of more than usual importance to hir... I wrote to EmGee privately and xe said yes, that was one of the things xe was talking about.
2002 March 3, Ken von Mattell, “Re: Newbie...not quite sure yet...”, in alt.suicide.holiday (Usenet), message-ID <[email protected]>:I mean, suppose there's someone who can't leave the house because xe's all tied up with counting tiles in the bathroom all day, and if xe manages to get done with that, there's the stove to check again and again ... you get the idea.
- 2023, Aimee Ogden, “A Half-Remembered World”, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, vol. 145, no. 1-2, whole no. 768 (July/August 2023), pages 146-202
- The soft blue sky had the feel of a good omen. In Xir old age, the god moved slower every year; lingering in the shallows long after the last fish had been swallowed up by nets. Sometimes Xe stood still for days, in sight of the shore, as if Xe had not quite decided whether to beach Xemself for good. Let Xem only survive long enough to spawn a new god! Else Xir helpless people would be godless ans stranded in the haunted dryland where the dead cities slept. Where less kindly deities roamed.
Usage notes
- Xe normally uses third-person singular conjugations, unlike singular they: xe is, xe does, xe has, etc. (Contrast they are, they do, they have.)
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Etymology
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Pronunciation
Interjection
xe
- (Valencia) hey
Derived terms
Further reading
Cypriot Arabic
Etymology
Inherited from Arabic أَخَذَ (ʔaḵaḏa).
Verb
xe I (present pkyaxo)
- to take
- to catch fire
References
- Borg, Alexander (2004) A Comparative Glossary of Cypriot Maronite Arabic (Arabic–English) (Handbook of Oriental Studies; I.70), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 137
Drehu
Etymology
Compare Xârâgurè sa (“hit”).
Verb
xe
- smack
References
- Claire Moyse-Faurie, Constructions expressing middle, reflexive and reciprocal situations in some Oceanic languages, in Reciprocals and Reflexives: Theoretical and Typological Explorations
Ewe
Adjective
xe
- hoarse
Noun
xe
- bird
Verb
xe
- to block so that it is not possible to pass / to prevent (something or someone) from passing
- to catch (a ball)
- to fill, to make full
- to seal, to prevent people or vehicles from crossing (something) or to close (it) securely to prevent leakage
Ido
Etymology
From x + -e.
Pronunciation
Noun
xe (plural xe-i)
- The name of the Latin script letter X/x.
See also
- (Latin script letter names) litero; a, be, ce, che, de, e, fe, ge, he, i, je, ke, le, me, ne, o, pe, que, re, se, she, te, u, ve, we, xe, ye, ze (Category: io:Latin letter names)
Middle English
Pronoun
xe
- (chiefly southern East Midland dialectal) Alternative form of sche
Old Tupi
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *t͡ʃe (“I, me”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʃɛ/
- Rhymes: -ɛ
- Hyphenation: xe
Pronoun
xe (2nd class, 1st person singular, dative xebe/xebo, 1st class equivalent ixé)
- I, me
- my, mine
Derived terms
Descendants
See also
Old Tupi personal pronouns
References
- ^ Antônio Augusto Souza Mello (2000 March 17) “Reconstruções Lexicais e Cognatos” (chapter III), in Estudo histórico da família linguística tupi-guarani: aspectos fonológicos e lexicais (in Portuguese), Florianópolis: UFSC, page 200, line 3
Further reading
Paipai
Noun
xe
- pot, kettle
Venetian
Pronunciation
Verb
xe
- third-person singular present indicative of èser
- third-person plural present indicative of èser
Vietnamese
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 車 (“vehicle”, SV: xa). Compare hè and hạ, chè and trà.
Noun
(classifier chiếc, con, cỗ) xe • (車)
- wheeled vehicle (except for airplanes)
- Synonym: xế
- đậu xe ― to park
- lái xe ― to pilot a wheeled vehicle other than planes or trains; to drive, to ride, etc.
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Derived terms
Descendants
Noun
(classifier con) xe • (車)
- (xiangqi) chariot, a piece labeled with the characters 車/车 (xa, black) and 俥/伡 (red)
- (by extension, chess) rook
See also
Etymology 2
Adjective
xe
- (obsolete) many