The story
- Old English · derived fromslīfan
- Middle English · derived fromsliven“to cut, cleave, split”
- Middle English · inherited fromslivere, sliver
- English todaysliver
From Middle English slivere, sliver from Middle English sliven (“to cut, cleave, split”), from Old English slīfan (as in tōslīfan (“to split, split up”)).
Words from the same roots
Middle Englishsliven all →
slive
Old Englishslīfan all →
slive
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.