névé
See also: Appendix:Variations of "neve"
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French névé, from the Franco-Provençal (Savoyard) term névi (“mass of snow”), from Latin nix, nivis (“snow”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /neɪˈveɪ/
Audio (Southern England) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪ
Noun
névé (plural névés)
- The firn or snowfield at the head of a glacier.
- 1913, R. F. Scott, chapter XVIII, in Leonard Huxley, editor, Scott's Last Expedition, volume I, Monday, December 25:
- Then we started up a rise, and to our annoyance found ourselves amongst crevasses once more—very hard, smooth névé between high ridges at the edge of crevasses, and therefore very difficult to get foothold to pull the sledges.
Translations
Further reading
- névé on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Névé in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Franco-Provençal névi.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ne.ve/
(file)
Descendants
- → English: névé
Further reading
- “névé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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