snee

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English

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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Compare Dutch snee, snede, and German Schneide.

Noun

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snee (plural snees)

  1. (obsolete) A large knife.

Etymology 2

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Verb

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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]

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Dutch

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Pronunciation

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Etymology 1

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

Noun

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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)
Alternative forms
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Descendants
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  • Papiamentu: snechi

Etymology 2

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

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snee f (uncountable)

  1. (now dialectal, otherwise obsolete) Alternative form of sneeuw

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Middle Dutch

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Etymology

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

Noun

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snêe m or f

  1. snow

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