snee

See also: Snee

English

Pronunciation

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

Dutch

Alternative forms

Etymology

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /sneː/
  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -eː

Noun

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

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

Further reading

Anagrams

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch snēo, from Proto-Germanic *snaiwaz.

Noun

snêe m or f

  1. snow

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Further reading
  • “snee”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • “snee”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, 1929
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