סנאי

Hebrew

פנים של סנאי

Etymology

Root
ס־נ־ה (s-n-h)
2 terms

Clipping and back-formation of the phrase חֻלְדַּת הַסְּנָאִים (literally “bushrat”), with the second part being converted into a singular noun. The first appearance dates to Modern Hebrew.

Pronunciation

• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /snaˈ(ʔ)i/

Noun

סְנָאִי • (sna'í) m (plural indefinite סְנָאִים, singular construct סְנָאִי־, plural construct סְנָאֵי־)

1. squirrel (any of the rodents of the family Sciuridae)

References

• Klein, Ernest (1987) “סְנָאִי”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English‎^[1], Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 450b
• “סנאי” in the Hebrew Terms Database of the Academy of Hebrew Language

Further reading

• סנאי on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he