snig
English edit
Pronunciation edit
Etymology 1 edit
Verb edit
snig (third-person singular simple present snigs, present participle snigging, simple past and past participle snigged)
- (Australia, New Zealand, forestry) To drag a log along the ground by means of a chain fastened at one end.
- (UK, dialect) To sneak.
- (UK, dialect) To chop off; to cut.
Etymology 2 edit
Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *snigilaz or *snagilaz; related to snail.
Noun edit
snig (plural snigs)
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “snig”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams edit
Old Irish edit
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
·snig
- third-person singular present indicative conjunct of snigid
Mutation edit
| Old Irish mutation | ||
|---|---|---|
| Radical | Lenition | Nasalization |
| snig | ṡnig | unchanged |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Serbo-Croatian edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *sněgъ, from Proto-Indo-European *snóygʷʰos.
Noun edit
snig m (Cyrillic spelling сниг)
- (Chakavian, Ikavian) snow
- 1536, Petar Zoranić, Planine:
- Kako sunčen plam
snig tali čas svak,
a vitar bludan
odgoni oblak,
tako ljubezan
tali moj žitak.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1622, Ivan Gundulić, Suze sina razmetnoga:
- Kami u cvijeću, cvit na snigu,
Snig na suncu, sunce u noći.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- 1759, Antun Kanižlić, Sveta Rožalija:
- Ter po strmu brigu i kamenju idem,
po trnju, po snigu, po jamah k njoj pridem.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)