snee

See also: Snee

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, UK, US) enPR: snē, IPA^(key): /sniː/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -iː

Etymology 1

Compare Dutch snee, snede, and German Schneide.

Noun

snee (plural snees)

1. (obsolete) A large knife.

Etymology 2

Verb

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

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

See also

• snick or snee

Anagrams

• seen, sene, Sene, eens, esne, Nees

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sneː/

• Audio:

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• 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)

   Synonym: insnijding

2. slice (a piece cut off from a whole)

Alternative forms

• snede

Related terms

• snijden

Descendants

• → Papiamentu: snechi

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

snee f (uncountable, no diminutive)

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

Further reading

• snee on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

Anagrams

• eens

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch snēo m.

Noun

snêe m or f

1. snow

Inflection

Strong feminine noun (irregular)

	singular	plural
nominative	snêe	-
accusative	snêe	-
genitive	snêe, snêwe	-
dative	snêe, snêwe	-

Strong masculine noun (irregular)

	singular	plural
nominative	snêe	-
accusative	snêe	-
genitive	snêes, snêwes	-
dative	snêe, snêwe	-

Descendants

• Dutch: sneeuw, snee (now dialectal, otherwise obsolete)
  • Afrikaans: sneeu
  • Negerhollands: sneew
  • → Papiamentu: sneu, sneeuw
  • → Sranan Tongo: snew
• Limburgish: Schnië, snieë

Further reading

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