different between snive vs slive

English

Pronunciation

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

Verb

snive (third-person singular simple present snives, present participle sniving, simple past and past participle snived)

1. Alternative spelling of sny (abound, swarm, teem, be infested).

Anagrams

• Nevis, Viens, Vines, veins, vines, visne

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sla?v/
• Rhymes: -a?v

Etymology 1

From Middle English sliven, from Old English sl?fan (“to cleave, split”), from Proto-Germanic *sl?ban? (“to split”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to cut”).

Verb

slive (third-person singular simple present slives, present participle sliving, simple past slove or slived, past participle sliven or slived)

1. (transitive, obsolete or dialectal) To cut; split; separate.
2. (transitive, obsolete or dialectal, chiefly Scotland) To cut or slice something off; separate by slicing.

Noun

slive (plural slives)

1. (dialectal) A slice or sliver; slip, chip.

Related terms

• sliver

Etymology 2

Perhaps related to slip.

Verb

slive (third-person singular simple present slives, present participle sliving, simple past and past participle slived)

1. (dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To sneak; skulk; proceed in a sly way; creep.

Related terms

• sliverly

Anagrams

• Elvis, Levi's, Levis, Lévis, Viels, evils, lives, veils, vleis, vlies

Slovene

Noun

slíve

1. inflection of slíva:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural