snee
See also: Snee
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation, UK, US) enPR: snē, IPA(key): /sniː/
- Rhymes: -iː
Etymology 1
Compare Dutch snee, snede, and German Schneide.
Noun
snee (plural snees)
- (obsolete) A large knife.
Verb
snee (third-person singular simple present snees, present participle sneeing, simple past and past participle sneed)
- Obsolete spelling of sny (abound, swarm, teem, be infested). [17th century]
Anagrams
- Nees, eens, esne, seen, sene
Dutch
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sneː/
Audio (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)
- cut (an opening resulting from cutting)
- 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)
- (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, from Proto-Germanic *snaiwaz.
Noun
snêe m or f
- snow
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Dutch: sneeuw, snee
- Afrikaans: sneeu
- Negerhollands: sneew
- → Papiamentu: sneu, sneeuw
- → Sranan Tongo: snew
- Limburgish: snieë
Further reading
- “snee”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
- Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “snee”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN