snite

English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for snite in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Etymology 1

Noun

snite (plural snites)

  1. (obsolete or Scotland) A snipe.
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Etymology 2

From Middle English sniten, from Old English snȳtan (“to clear or blow the nose”), from Proto-Germanic *snūtijaną (“to blow the nose”). Cognate with Old Norse snýta (“to blow the nose”), whence Danish snyde and Swedish snyta sig, and with German sich schneuzen. Related to snout and snot.

Verb

snite (third-person singular simple present snites, present participle sniting, simple past and past participle snited)

  1. (obsolete or Scotland, transitive) to blow (one's nose)
  2. (obsolete or Scotland, transitive) to snuff (a candle)

References
  • Thomson, J. - Etymons of English words - pg. 199

References
  • snite in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

Irish

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈʃn̠ʲɪtʲə]

Verb

snite

  1. past participle of snigh

Mutation
Irish mutation
Radical Lenition Eclipsis
snite shnite
after an, tsnite		 not applicable
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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