English
siever
From sieve + -er.
Formed from sieve + -er
Proto-Indo-European *seyp-
Proto-West Germanic *sibi
Old English sife
Middle English sive ‘sieve, riddle, sile’
English sieve
Today it means
noun One who sieves.
Sources
Sources: Wiktionary, “siever”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.
Etymograph / siever