besniwod

Old English

Alternative forms

Etymology

The past participle of *besnīwian (“to snow on, besnow, cover with snow”).

Adjective

besnīwod

  1. covered with snow, snowy.

Descendants
  • Middle English: besnewed, bisnewed

References
  • besníwod in Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary
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