English
Etymology
Old English sibb
Pronunciation
IPA|/sɪb/
:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-ɪb|-ɪb
Adjective
en-adj
- related, by birth or descent; similar to
#:*1980: But she got up to go, and Domenico obeyed me too in mock meekness, making himself sib and coeval to Hortense, submissive to frowning elder brother, something incestuous in it. � Anthony Burgess, Earthly Powers
Noun
en-noun
#A blood relation.
Old High German
Etymology
West Germanic *sibhi, whence also Old English sife
Noun
sib n
- sieve
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