snig
English
Pronunciation
Audio (AU) (file) - Rhymes: -ɪɡ
Verb
snig (third-person singular simple present snigs, present participle snigging, simple past and past participle snigged)
Etymology 2
Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *snigilaz or *snagilaz; related to snail.
Noun
snig (plural snigs)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “snig”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Old Irish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sʲn͈ʲiɣʲ/
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sněgъ, from Proto-Indo-European *snóygʷʰos.
Noun
snig m (Cyrillic spelling сниг)
- (Chakavian, Ikavian) snow
- 1536, Petar Zoranić, Planine:
- Kako sunčen plam
snig tali čas svak,
a vitar bludan
odgoni oblak,
tako ljubezan
tali moj žitak.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1622, Ivan Gundulić, Suze sina razmetnoga:
- Kami u cvijeću, cvit na snigu,
Snig na suncu, sunce u noći.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1759, Antun Kanižlić, Sveta Rožalija:
- Ter po strmu brigu i kamenju idem,
po trnju, po snigu, po jamah k njoj pridem.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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