sneo

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *snaiw, from Proto-Germanic *snaiwaz.

Noun

snēo m

1. snow

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: snêe
  • Dutch: sneeuw, snee
    • Afrikaans: sneeu
    • Negerhollands: sneew
    • → Papiamentu: sneu, sneeuw
    • → Sranan Tongo: snew
  • Limburgish: snieë

Further reading

• “snēo”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *snaiw, from Proto-Germanic *snaiwaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈs̠neːo]

Noun

snēo m

1. snow

Descendants

• Middle High German: snē
  • Alemannic German: Schnee

    Swabian: Schnéa, Schnéé

    Italian Walser: schnee, schnei, schnia, schné, schnìj

  • Bavarian: Schnää, Schnèj, schnea, sghneab

    Cimbrian: snea, snèa

    Mòcheno: schnea

  • Central Franconian: Schnie

    Hunsrik: Schnee

  • German: Schnee
  • Luxembourgish: Schnéi
  • Rhine Franconian: Schnäi, Schnee, Schnei, Schnie

    Pennsylvania German: Schnee

  • Vilamovian: śnej
  • Yiddish: שניי (shney)

Old Saxon

Alternative forms

• snēu

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *snaiw, from Proto-Germanic *snaiwaz.

Noun

snēo

1. snow

Declension

Declension of snēo (masculine wa-stem)

	singular	plural
nominative	snēo	snēwos
accusative	snēo	snēwos
genitive	snēwes	snēwō
dative	snēwe	snēwum
instrumental	—	—

Descendants

• Middle Low German: snê
  • German Low German: Snei, Snee, Sneei
  • Plautdietsch: Schnee