Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗noun
A drop.
verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryTo sink; fall; drop. · To fall, as in a swoon; faint. · To drop, as water; trickle. · To sift.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *seykʷ-der. Proto-Germanic *sīhwaną Proto-Germanic *sīganą Proto-West Germanic *sīgan Old English sīgan Middle English sien English sie From Middle English sien, from Old English sīgan (“to sink, descend”), from Proto-Germanic *sīganą, *sīhwaną (“to strain, drop”), from Proto-Indo-European *seykʷ- (“to pour, strain”). Cognate with Dutch zijgen (“to filter”), German seihen (“to strain, sieve”), Icelandic síga (“to lower”).
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