snig

English

Pronunciation

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• Rhymes: -ɪɡ

Etymology 1

Verb

snig (third-person singular simple present snigs, present participle snigging, simple past and past participle snigged)

1. (Australia, New Zealand, forestry) To drag a log along the ground by means of a chain fastened at one end.
2. (UK, dialect) To sneak.
3. (UK, dialect) To chop off; to cut.

Etymology 2

Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *snigilaz or *snagilaz; related to snail.

Noun

snig (plural snigs)

1. (UK, dialect) A small eel.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

Anagrams

• IGNs, Ings, NGIs, Sing, Sing., gins, ings, nigs, sign, sing, sing.

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sʲn͈ʲiɣʲ/

Verb

·snig

1. third-person singular present indicative conjunct of snigid

Mutation

Old Irish mutation
Radical	Lenition	Nasalization
snig	ṡnig	unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.

Serbo-Croatian

Alternative forms

• snȇg (Ekavian)
• snijȇg (Ijekavian)

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sněgъ, from Proto-Indo-European *snóygʷʰos.

Noun

snig m (Cyrillic spelling сниг)

1. (Chakavian, Ikavian) snow
   • 1536, Petar Zoranić, Planine:

     Kako sunčen plam
     snig tali čas svak,
     a vitar bludan
     odgoni oblak,
     tako ljubezan
     tali moj žitak.

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   • 1622, Ivan Gundulić, Suze sina razmetnoga:

     Kami u cvijeću, cvit na snigu,
     Snig na suncu, sunce u noći.

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   • 1759, Antun Kanižlić, Sveta Rožalija:

     Ter po strmu brigu i kamenju idem,
     po trnju, po snigu, po jamah k njoj pridem.

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