zepron.

Brit.

/ziː/, U.S.

/zi/

Forms: 1900s– sie, 1900s– xe, 1900s– ze, 1900s– zee, 1900s– zhe Brit.

/ʒi/, U.S.

/ʒi/, 1900s– zie.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: z- , he pron., she pron.¹

Etymology: < z- (chosen as representing a sound not used in other pronouns) + -e (in he pron., she pron.¹); influenced by German sie she, they (pronounced /ziː/: see hoo pron. and hi pron.², respectively). Compare s/he pron.²

Used as a gender-neutral third person singular subject pronoun. Cf. s/he pron.²In later contextual use, especially with reference to individuals who do not identify themselves as either male or female, but rather as another or no gender, or as a combination of genders, as distinct from use as a term for unknown individuals of unspecified gender.Quot. 1864 appears to be an isolated early use.

1864 Ladies Repository Sept. 567/2 The suggestion of your correspondent ‘Philologus’ respecting the poverty of our language in its need of an epicene pronoun, is one that must have occurred to every intelligent person... The only points to be considered are, the selection of a suitable word—and I think that either ‘ve’ or ‘ze’ would equally answer the requirement—and the method of its propagation.

1972 S. Polgar in Newslet. Amer. Anthropol. Assoc. Sept. 18/1 Once we are committed to ‘ze’ for the subjective, the other forms follow fairly easily.

1985 Re: Non-sexist Lang. (Hist.) in net.nlang (Usenet newsgroup) 14 June My nomination? Zhe. (The zh is pronounced like the z in azure.) Example: If a person saw an automobile accident, what should zhe do?

1996 L. Feinberg Transgender Warriors Pref. p. x I don't have a personal stake in whether the trans liberation movement results in..gender-neutral pronouns, like the ones, such as ze (she/he) and hir (her/his), being experimented with in cyberspace.

2016 Washington Post (Nexis) 10 Jan. (Outlook section) b3 It seems entirely possible that in my daughter's lifetime, gender-specific pronouns will sound as archaic as ‘thee’ and ‘thou’, supplanted by ‘ze’ or ‘zir’ or some neologism of the future.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	ze
释义	zepron. Brit. /ziː/, U.S. /zi/ Forms: 1900s– sie, 1900s– xe, 1900s– ze, 1900s– zee, 1900s– zhe Brit. /ʒi/, U.S. /ʒi/, 1900s– zie. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: z- , he pron., she pron.¹ Etymology: < z- (chosen as representing a sound not used in other pronouns) + -e (in he pron., she pron.¹); influenced by German sie she, they (pronounced /ziː/: see hoo pron. and hi pron.², respectively). Compare s/he pron.² Used as a gender-neutral third person singular subject pronoun. Cf. s/he pron.²In later contextual use, especially with reference to individuals who do not identify themselves as either male or female, but rather as another or no gender, or as a combination of genders, as distinct from use as a term for unknown individuals of unspecified gender.Quot. 1864 appears to be an isolated early use. Π 1864 Ladies Repository Sept. 567/2 The suggestion of your correspondent ‘Philologus’ respecting the poverty of our language in its need of an epicene pronoun, is one that must have occurred to every intelligent person... The only points to be considered are, the selection of a suitable word—and I think that either ‘ve’ or ‘ze’ would equally answer the requirement—and the method of its propagation. 1972 S. Polgar in Newslet. Amer. Anthropol. Assoc. Sept. 18/1 Once we are committed to ‘ze’ for the subjective, the other forms follow fairly easily. 1985 Re: Non-sexist Lang. (Hist.) in net.nlang (Usenet newsgroup) 14 June My nomination? Zhe. (The zh is pronounced like the z in azure.) Example: If a person saw an automobile accident, what should zhe do? 1996 L. Feinberg Transgender Warriors Pref. p. x I don't have a personal stake in whether the trans liberation movement results in..gender-neutral pronouns, like the ones, such as ze (she/he) and hir (her/his), being experimented with in cyberspace. 2016 Washington Post (Nexis) 10 Jan. (Outlook section) b3 It seems entirely possible that in my daughter's lifetime, gender-specific pronouns will sound as archaic as ‘thee’ and ‘thou’, supplanted by ‘ze’ or ‘zir’ or some neologism of the future. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < pron.1864
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