snee

See also: Snee

English

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Compare Dutch snee, snede, and German Schneide.

Noun

snee (plural snees)

  1. (obsolete) A large knife.

Verb

snee (third-person singular simple present snees, present participle sneeing, simple past and past participle sneed)

  1. Obsolete spelling of sny (abound, swarm, teem, be infested). [17th century]

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Anagrams

Dutch

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sneː/
  • (file)
  • Hyphenation: snee
  • Rhymes: -eː

Etymology 1

From older snede with syncope of d, from Middle Dutch snede.

Noun

snee f (plural sneden or snedes, diminutive sneetje n)

  1. cut (an opening resulting from cutting)
  2. slice (a piece cut off from a whole)
Alternative forms
Descendants
  • Papiamentu: snechi

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

snee f (uncountable)

  1. (now dialectal, otherwise obsolete) Alternative form of sneeuw

Further reading

Anagrams

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch snēo, from Proto-Germanic *snaiwaz.

Noun

snêe m or f

  1. snow

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Further reading

  • snee”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “snee”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN
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