Word Origin Summary

Sivun is attested in Old Dutch. Follow the ancestry chain below to trace where this term came from and how it branched into later descendants.

Descendants and Related Terms

• seven

  Middle Dutch · inherited from

• zûve

  Jersey Dutch · inherited from

• Zevenhuizen

  Dutch · inherited from

• sewe

  Afrikaans · inherited from

• zeven

  Dutch · inherited from

• sœve

  Jersey Dutch · inherited from

• Zevenhoven

  Dutch · inherited from

• zeven

  Zealandic · inherited from

What You Can Explore

• 🗺️Geographic migration map — see where this word traveled
• 🌳Language family tree — trace connections across related languages
• 📅Historical timeline — when the word entered different languages
• 🔤Cognates — related words in other languages sharing the same root