Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/sibi

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *seyp-, *seybʰ- (“to sieve”). See Proto-Germanic *sīpaną (“to drip, pour”) for more.

Noun

*sibi n

sieve

Inflection

i-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*sibi
Genitive	*sibī
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*sibi	*sibī
Accusative	*sibi	*sibī
Genitive	*sibī	*sibbjō
Dative	*sibī	sibim, sibbjum
Instrumental	*sibī	sibim, sibbjum

Related terms

*siftijan

Descendants

Old English: sife, sibi
- Middle English: sive, syve, syfe, syffe (Northern), ceve, cyve, seve (Late Middle English), sife (Early Middle English)
  - English: sieve
  - Middle Scots: siffe, syffe, sif, syf
    - Scots: sieve
Old Frisian: *sif, *siōf, *siōfe
- Saterland Frisian: Sieuwe
- West Frisian: sjouwe, souwe, sou
Old Saxon: *sifi, sif
- Middle Low German: sēve, sēf, sif
  - German Low German: Seve, Seev
  - Low German: Seve
  - Plautdietsch: Sie
Old Dutch: sif
- Middle Dutch: sef, seve, seef
  - Dutch: zeef
Old High German: sib, sipf, siph
- Middle High German: sib, sip; (West Central German) sif
  - German: Sieb, Sip
  - Luxembourgish: Siff