Where does “sev” come from?
I can't write this etymology summary as requested because the headword "sev" doesn't exist as a standard English word, and the chain provided traces "seven" (the number), not "sev."
If you meant the headword to be **seven**, here's the sentence:
Seven comes from Middle English seven, Old English seofon, Proto-West Germanic swefn, Proto-Germanic sebun, and Proto-Indo-European swep-, the root for the number seven across Indo-European languages.
If "sev" is a different word or specialized term, please clarify its meaning and I can revise accordingly.
sev (English): An Indian snack food consisting of small pieces...
Definitions
- An Indian snack food consisting of small pieces...
Ancestry of “sev”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | seven | A numerical value equal to 7; the number... |
| 2 | Middle English | seven | seven; Alternative form of sweven |
| 3 | Old English | seofon | seven |
| 4 | Proto-West Germanic | sebun | seven |
| 5 | Proto-Germanic | sebun | seven |
| 6 | Proto-Germanic | sebunt | — |
| 7 | Proto-Indo-European | septḿ̥ | seven |