different between snew vs snee

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /snju?/, /snu?/
• Rhymes: -u?

Etymology 1

From Middle English snewen, from Old English sn?wan (“to snow”), from Proto-Germanic *sn?wan?, from Proto-Indo-European *sneyg??-.

Verb

snew (third-person singular simple present snews, present participle snewing, simple past and past participle snewed)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To snow.
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To abound.

Etymology 2

See snow.

Verb

snew

1. (dialectal) simple past tense of snow

References

• snew in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “snow”, in Online Etymology Dictionary

Anagrams

• news, sewn, wens

Middle English

Verb

snew

1. Alternative form of snewen

Sranan Tongo

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch sneeuw.

Noun

snew

1. snow

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, UK, US) enPR: sn?, IPA^(key): /sni?/

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 (abound, swarm, teem, be infested). [17th century]

Anagrams

• Nees, eens, esne, seen, sene

Dutch

Alternative forms

• snede

Etymology

From older snede with syncope of d, from Middle Dutch snede.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sne?/
• Hyphenation: snee
• Rhymes: -e?

Noun

snee f (plural sneden or snedes, diminutive sneetje n)

1. cut (an opening resulting from cutting)
2. slice (a piece cut off from a whole)

Related terms

• snijden

Further reading

• snee on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

Anagrams

• eens

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch sn?o, from Proto-Germanic *snaiwaz.

Noun

snêe m or f

1. snow

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: sneeuw
  • Afrikaans: sneeu
  • ? Papiamentu: sneu
  • ? 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