An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/Schneide

by Friedrich Kluge

Schneide, feminine, ‘(cutting) edge, snare, gin,’ from Middle High German snîde, feminine, ‘edge of a sword or a knife’; allied to schneiden, from Middle High German snîden, Old High German snîdan, ‘to cut, carve, make (clothes)’; compare Gothic sneiþan, ‘to cut, reap,’ Old Icelandic snìða, Anglo-Saxon snîþan (obsolete at the beginning of the Middle English period), Dutch snijden, Old Saxon snîthan. A common Teutonic verb from the root snī̆þ (snī̆d), ‘to cut,’ which has to correspondences in the other Aryan languages. See schnitzen. —