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”).

Noun

*sibi n

1. 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, ceve, cive, cyve, sife, syfe, syffe, syve
    • English: sieve
    • Scots: sieve, siffe, syffe, sif, syf
• 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
• 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