Where does “sieve” come from?

Sieve comes from Middle English sive, Old English sife, Proto-West Germanic sibi, and Proto-Indo-European seyp-, with the original meaning lost to time.

sieve (English): A device with a mesh bottom to separate, in a...

Definitions

  1. A device with a mesh bottom to separate, in a...

Ancestry of “sieve”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Middle Englishsivesieve, riddle, sile; The amount that fits in a...
2Old Englishsifesieve
3Proto-West Germanicsibisieve
4Proto-Indo-Europeanseyp-to pour out, trickle, strain; to pour out, drip,...

Words derived from “sieve”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European seyp- →