Where does “sife” come from?

sife (Old English) comes from Proto-West Germanic sibi, from Proto-Indo-European seyp- — to pour out, trickle, strain; to pour out, drip,...

sife (Old English): sieve

Definitions

  1. sieve

Ancestry of “sife”, step by step

sife traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-West Germanic sibi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-West Germanicsibisieve
2Proto-Indo-Europeanseyp-to pour out, trickle, strain; to pour out, drip,...

via Proto-Germanic sibi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanicsibi—

Words derived from “sife”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European seyp- →Every word from Proto-West Germanic sibi →