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xe

See also: Appendix:Variations of "xe"

English

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Etymology

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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).

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Pronoun

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xe (third-person singular, gender-neutral, nominative case, oblique xem, reflexive xyrself, possessive xyr)

  1. (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

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  • 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

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Synonyms

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Hyponyms

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Anagrams

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Catalan

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Pronunciation

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Interjection

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xe

  1. (Valencia) hey

Derived terms

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Further reading

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Cypriot Arabic

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Root
'-x-t
2 terms

Etymology

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Inherited from Arabic أَخَذَ (ʔaḵaḏa).

Verb

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xe I (present pkyaxo)

  1. to take
  2. to catch fire

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  • 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

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Etymology

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Compare Xârâgurè sa (“hit”).

Verb

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xe

  1. smack

References

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  • Claire Moyse-Faurie, Constructions expressing middle, reflexive and reciprocal situations in some Oceanic languages, in Reciprocals and Reflexives: Theoretical and Typological Explorations

Ewe

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Adjective

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xe

  1. hoarse

Noun

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xe

  1. bird

Verb

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xe

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

Ido

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Etymology

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From x +‎ -e.

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Noun

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xe (plural xe-i)

  1. The name of the Latin script letter X/x.

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Middle English

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Pronoun

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xe

  1. (chiefly southern East Midland dialectal) Alternative form of sche

Old Tupi

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Tupi-Guarani *t͡ʃe (“I, me”).[1]

cognates

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈʃɛ/
  • Rhymes: -ɛ
  • Hyphenation: xe

Pronoun

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xe (2nd class, 1st person singular, dative xebe / xebo, 1st class equivalent ixé)

  1. I, me
  2. my, mine

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Nheengatu: se

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    Old Tupi personal pronouns
Person Number Nominative／Accusative Possessive Dative Objective
Subject 1st class 2nd class Nonreflexive Reflexive 1st class 2nd class
Singular 1st ixé xe ixébe／ixébo xebe／xebo
2nd îepé endé nde endébe／endébo ndebe／ndebo oro-
Singular and Plural 3rd a'e i o i xupé
Plural 1st exc oré orébe／orébo
1st inc îandé îandébe／îandébo
2nd peîepé peẽ pe peẽme／peẽmo opo-
Indefinite asé asébe／asébo

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  1. ^ 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

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Paipai

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Noun

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xe

  1. pot, kettle

Venetan

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Verb

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xe

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

Vietnamese

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Non-Sino-Vietnamese reading of Chinese 車 (“vehicle”, SV: xa). Compare hè and hạ, chè and trà.

Noun

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(classifier chiếc, con, cỗ) xe • (車)

  1. 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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Noun

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(classifier con) xe • (車)

  1. (xiangqi) chariot, a piece labeled with the characters 車 / 车 (xa, black) and 俥 / 伡 (red)
  2. (by extension, chess) rook
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Chess pieces in Vietnamese · quân cờ vua (layout · text)
           
vua hậu xe, xa tượng, tịnh mã tốt, chốt

Etymology 2

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(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Adjective

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xe

  1. (obsolete) many
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