silver (n.) Look up silver at Dictionary.com
Old English seolfor "silver," from Proto-Germanic *silubra- (cf. Old Saxon silvbar, Old Norse silfr, Middle Dutch silver, Dutch zilver, Old High German sillabar, German silber, Gothic silubr), from a common Germanic/Balto-Slavic term (cf. Old Church Slavonic s(u)rebo, Russian serebro, Polish srebro, Lithuanian sidabras "silver"), possibly from a language of Asia Minor. Perhaps from Akkadian sarpu "silver," literally "refined silver," related to sarapu "to refine, smelt." Chemical abbreviation Ag is from Latin argentum "silver," from the PIE root (see argent).
silver (v.) Look up silver at Dictionary.com
"to cover or plate with silver," mid-15c., from silver (n.). Related: Silvered; silvering.