xe
EnglishEdit
EtymologyEdit
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).
PronunciationEdit
- (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
PronounEdit
xe
- (nonstandard) they (singular). Gender-neutral third-person singular subject pronoun, coordinate with gendered pronouns he and she.
- 1992, Sinclair, Jim, “If you could choose...”, in Jim Sinclair's Web Site[1], archived from the original on 2003-11-03:
- 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, Sinclair, Jim, “Re: Jim and Steve's snoring discussion”, in bit.listserv.autism, Usenet[2], 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, Alpen, Dagmar, “Re: Think of a small tribe of people...”, in talk.politics.libertarian, Usenet[3], message-ID <7g74qb$8sq$1@rzsun02.rrz.uni-hamburg.de>:
- Now full ownership in the modern sense... implies four rights of the owner: 1. The right to decide what xe does with xyr property; 2. the right to decide what others do with xyr property; […]
- 2000 December 11, Curtin, Mary Ellen, “Silencing and ad hominem attacks”, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated, Usenet[4], message-ID <074d01c06393$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, von Mattell, Ken, “Re: Newbie...not quite sure yet...”, in alt.suicide.holiday, Usenet[5], 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.
DeclensionEdit
- 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)
SynonymsEdit
HyponymsEdit
See alsoEdit
AnagramsEdit
Cypriot ArabicEdit
EtymologyEdit
VerbEdit
xe (present pkyaxo)
- to take
- to catch fire
DrehuEdit
EtymologyEdit
VerbEdit
xe
ReferencesEdit
- Claire Moyse-Faurie, Constructions expressing middle, reflexive and reciprocal situations in some Oceanic languages, in Reciprocals and Reflexives: Theoretical and Typological Explorations
EweEdit
AdjectiveEdit
xe
NounEdit
xe
VerbEdit
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
IdoEdit
PronunciationEdit
NounEdit
xe (plural xe-i)
- The name of the Latin script letter X/x.
See alsoEdit
- (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 EnglishEdit
PronounEdit
xe
- (chiefly southern East Midland dialectal) Alternative form of sche
PaipaiEdit
NounEdit
xe
VenetianEdit
VerbEdit
xe
VietnameseEdit
PronunciationEdit
Etymology 1Edit
Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 車 (“vehicle”, SV: xa). Compare hè and hạ, chè and trà.
NounEdit
(classifier chiếc; con) 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 notesEdit
This term includes steam trains (xe lửa) in Southern Vietnam but not in Northern Vietnam, where they are classified as tàu (tàu hỏa).
Derived termsEdit
Derived terms
- 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
- 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 Honda
- xe hon đa
- 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 ôm
- xe ô-tô
- 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
DescendantsEdit
- Tai Dam: ꪵꪎ
NounEdit
- (xiangqi) chariot, a piece labeled with the characters 車 (xa, black) and 俥 (red)
- (by extension, chess) rook
See alsoEdit
| Chess pieces in Vietnamese · quân cờ vua (layout · text) | |||||
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| vua | hậu | xe, xa | tượng, tịnh | mã | tốt, chốt |
Etymology 2Edit
AdjectiveEdit
xe