xe
English edit
Etymology edit
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 edit
- (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 edit
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[1], 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[2] (Usenet), message-ID <AUTISM%93091417074261@SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU>:
- 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[3] (Usenet), message-ID <7g74qb$8sq$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de>:
- Now full ownership in the modern sense... implies four rights of the owner: 1. The right to decide what xe does with xyr property; 2. the right to decide what others do with xyr property; […]
- 2000 December 11, Mary Ellen Curtin, “Silencing and ad hominem attacks”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated[4] (Usenet), message-ID <074d01c06393$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[5] (Usenet), message-ID <rif48uc0ja9q3km9o2jf167d4u4o3qpk1k@4ax.com>:
- 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 edit
- Xe normally uses third-person singular conjugations, unlike singular they: xe is, xe does, xe has, etc. (Contrast they are, they do, they have.)
Declension edit
- Subject: xe (or xhe)
- Object: xem (or xer)
- Possessive: xyr or xir (or xis or xer) (or xeir)
- Reflexive: xyrself or xirself (perhaps rarely xemself or hirself or xerself)
Synonyms edit
Hyponyms edit
See also edit
Anagrams edit
Catalan edit
Alternative forms edit
- che (superseded)
Etymology edit
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Pronunciation edit
Interjection edit
xe
Derived terms edit
Further reading edit
- “xe” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “xe” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “xe”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “xe” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Cypriot Arabic edit
Root |
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'-x-t |
2 terms |
Etymology edit
Inherited from Arabic أَخَذَ (ʔaḵaḏa).
Verb edit
- to take
- to catch fire
References edit
- 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 edit
Etymology edit
Verb edit
xe
References edit
- Claire Moyse-Faurie, Constructions expressing middle, reflexive and reciprocal situations in some Oceanic languages, in Reciprocals and Reflexives: Theoretical and Typological Explorations
Ewe edit
Adjective edit
xe
Noun edit
xe
Verb edit
xe
Ido edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
xe (plural xe-i)
- The name of the Latin script letter X/x.
See also edit
Middle English edit
Pronoun edit
xe
- (chiefly southern East Midland dialectal) Alternative form of sche
Old Tupi edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *t͡ʃe (“I, me”).[1]
Pronunciation edit
Pronoun edit
xe (2nd class, 1st person singular, dative xebe, 1st class ixé)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Nheengatu: se
See also edit
Person | Number | Nominative Accusative |
Possessive | Dative | Objective | ||||
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Subject | 1st class | 2nd class | Nonreflexive | Reflexive | 1st class | 2nd class | |||
Singular | 1st | ixé | xe | ixébe | xebe | ||||
2nd | îepé | endé | nde | endébe | ndebe | oro- | |||
Singular and Plural | 3rd | a'e | i | o | i xupé | ||||
Plural | 1st exc | oré | orébe | ||||||
1st inc | îandé | îandébe | |||||||
2nd | peîepé | peẽ | pe | peẽme | peme | opo- | |||
Indefinite | asé | asébe |
References edit
Further reading edit
- Eduardo de Almeida Navarro (2013) “xe”, in Dicionário de tupi antigo: a língua indígena clássica do Brasil (in Portuguese), 1 edition, São Paulo: Global, →ISBN, page 202, column 1
Paipai edit
Noun edit
xe
Venetian edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
xe
Vietnamese edit
Pronunciation edit
- (Hà Nội) IPA(key): [sɛ˧˧]
- (Huế) IPA(key): [sɛ˧˧]
- (Hồ Chí Minh City) IPA(key): [sɛ˧˧]
Audio (Hà Nội) (file)
Etymology 1 edit
Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 車 (“vehicle”, SV: xa). Compare hè and hạ, chè and trà.
Noun edit
(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.
Usage notes edit
- This term includes steam trains (xe lửa) in Southern Vietnam but not in Northern Vietnam, where they are classified as tàu (tàu hỏa).
Derived terms edit
- bánh xe
- bằng lái xe
- bến xe
- bến xe buýt
- cỗ xe
- dấu xe ngựa
- đẩy xe
- giấy phép lái xe
- gọng xe
- hòm xe
- kẹt xe
- lái xe
- loại từ vòng gửi xe
- lơ xe
- ngựa xe như nước
- nhà xe
- nhíp xe
- phu xe
- ruột xe
- say xe
- thùng xe
- toa xe
- tông xe
- trạm xe lửa
- xe ba bánh
- xe ba gác
- xe bán tải
- xe ben
- xe bình bịch
- xe bò
- xe bọc thép
- xe buýt
- xe ca
- xe cải tiến
- xe cam nhông
- xe cam-nhông
- xe cấp cứu
- xe chữa cháy
- xe cộ
- xe công nông
- xe cúp
- xe cút kít
- xe cứu hỏa
- xe cứu thương
- xe dây
- xe du lịch
- xe đạp
- xe đạp bánh béo
- xe đẩy hàng
- xe điện
- xe điện ngầm
- xe đò
- xe đòn
- xe độc mã
- xe gắn máy
- xe gíp
- xe goòng
- xe hai bánh
- xe hàng
- xe hoa
- xe hỏa
- xe hòm
- xe hon đa
- xe Honda
- xe hơi
- xe hương
- xe kéo
- xe khách
- xe lai
- xe lai sạc điện
- xe lam
- xe lăn
- xe lăn đường
- xe lôi
- xe lội nước
- xe lu
- xe lửa
- xe lửa cao tốc
- xe máy
- xe mô tô
- xe mô-tô
- xe ngựa
- xe nôi
- xe ô-tô
- xe ôm
- xe pháo
- xe rác
- xe rùa
- xe song mã
- xe tải
- xe tang
- xe tay
- xe tắc xi
- xe tắc-xi
- xe tăng
- xe thiết giáp
- xe thổ mộ
- xe thư
- xe trượt tuyết
- xe tứ mã
- xe tưới đường
- xe ủi đất
- xe vận tải
- xe xích lô
- xuống xe
Descendants edit
- Tai Dam: ꪵꪎ
Noun edit
- (xiangqi) chariot, a piece labeled with the characters 車/车 (xa, black) and 俥/伡 (red)
- (by extension, chess) rook
See also edit
Chess pieces in Vietnamese · quân cờ vua (layout · text) | |||||
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vua | hậu | xe, xa | tượng, tịnh | mã | tốt, chốt |
Etymology 2 edit
Adjective edit
xe