An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/sieden

by Friedrich Kluge

sieden, verb, ‘to seethe, boil, stew,’ from Middle High German sieden, Old High German siodan, ‘to seethe, cook’; compare Dutch zieden, Anglo-Saxon seóðan, English to seethe, Old Icelandic sjóða, ‘to seethe, cook.’ In Gothic the only allied term is sauþs, masculine, ‘offering’ (Old Icelandic sauðr, ‘sheep,’ properly ‘sacrificial animal’). An Aryan root sut seems to be wanting in the cognate languages.