Icelandic

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Etymology

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From Old Norse snœri, related to Proto-Germanic *nēaną (to sew), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₁- (to spin).[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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snæri n (genitive singular snæris, nominative plural snæri)

  1. rope, cord

Declension

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References

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  1. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1883) “Schnur”, in John Francis Davis, transl., Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, published 1891