'Silver' has no accepted PIE etymology — possibly from a pre-Indo-European language of ancient Europe.
Of a lustrous greyish-white colour resembling the precious metal silver.
From Old English 'seolfor,' from Proto-Germanic *silubrą, a word of uncertain ultimate origin. Unlike most basic English vocabulary, 'silver' has no accepted PIE etymology. The word may be a very ancient wanderwort (a word borrowed across unrelated language families