snowen
Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
snowen
- (intransitive) To snow; to generate snow.
- (intransitive, rare) To abound; to rain.
Usage notes
This verb occasionally became a Class 7e strong verb on the model of blowen, resulting in a past stem snew- and a past participle snowen.
Conjugation
Conjugation of snowen (weak in -ed)
1Sometimes used as a formal 2nd-person singular.
Synonyms
Descendants
References
- “snouen (v.(1))”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-14.