xe

See also Xe, and хе

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

This pronoun has been independently invented by several people. Don Rickter invented the pronoun xe in November 1971. It appeared in "UU World" (the Unitarian Universalist publication) on 1 May 1973. Mario Pei gave him credit on page 145 of his 1978 book, "Weasel Words". It is also attributed to Jim Sinclair, who apparently coined it circa 1992.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /zi/

Pronoun

xe

1. (nonstandard, chiefly Internet) That person; a subject-case gender-irrelevant pronoun.

Declension

• Subject: xe
• Object: xem
• Possessive: xyr or xir (or hir)
• Reflexive: xyrself or xirself (perhaps rarely xemself)

See also

• hir

Quotations

						1992 2000	2002
ME «	15th c.	16th c.	17th c.	18th c.	19th c.	20th c.	21st c.

• 1992, Jim Sinclair, “If you could choose...” [1] Internet Archive: 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.

• 2000, Mary Ellen Curtin, in alt.startrek.creative.erotica.moderated [2]

  I wrote to EmGee privately and xe said yes, that was one of the things xe was talking about.

• 2002, Ken von Mattell, in alt.suicide.holiday [3]

  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.

Anagrams

• ex , ex.

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Ewe

Adjective

xe

1. hoarse

Noun

xe

1. bird

Verb

xe

1. To block – (To fill (something) so that it is not possible to pass) or (To prevent (something or someone) from passing).
2. To catch – (act of catching a ball).
3. To fill – (to make full).
4. To seal – To prevent people or vehicles from crossing (something) or (To close securely to prevent leakage).

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Lojban

Cmavo

xe (rafsi xel)

1. swaps the fifth and first sumti of the selbri which follows
2. indicates that the object of a preposition fills sumti x₅ of the preposition's corresponding brivla

Related terms

• se
• te
• ve

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Venetian

Verb

xe

1. second-person singular present indicative of èser
2. third-person singular present indicative of èser

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Vietnamese

Pronunciation

• IPA: /sɛ˦/

Etymology

Sino-Vietnamese, from Chinese 車

Noun

xe

1. vehicle, especially a car
2. rook (chess)

Derived terms

• bánh xe
• xe ba gác
• xe buýt
• xe cộ
• xe đạp
• xe điện
• xe điện ngầm
• xe tải
• xe tăng (tank)

See also

• ô tô