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sponding Du. snûven is usually derived ModHG. schnaufeu, which, however, may come from MidHG. snûfen, ‘to snuff.’ The Teut. root is snupp, snū̆f, snū̆b. Comp. Schnupfen.

Schnaue, f., ‘snow’ (vessel), from the equiv. LG. snau, Du. snaauw, whence also E. snow, Fr. senau; “orig. a ship with a beak, from LG. snau, ‘beak.’” Yet comp. also OHG. snacga, ‘navis rostrata’?.

Schnauze, f., ‘snout, muzzle, nozzle,’ ModHG. only; an imitation of LG. snûte, Du. snuit, ‘snout,’ though wrongly influenced in its dental sound perhaps by MidHG. sniutzen, ModHG. schneuzen; comp. E. snout and the equiv. MidE. snoute. The form with a correctly permutated MidHG. ȥ, equiv. to ModHG. sz, is preserved in ModHG. (dial.) schnaußen, ‘to snarl, junket, suck.’ For further remarks see schneuzen.

Schnecke, f., ‘snail, slug, spiral staircase,’ from MidHG. snëcke, m., ‘snail, tortoise, spiral staircase,’ OHG. snëcko, m., ‘snail’; corresponding to LG. snigge (Goth. *snigga, m., is wanting). Goth. *snagils is implied by MidHG. snęgel, ModHG. (Hess.) Schnegel, ‘snail,’ LG. snagel, AS. snœgel, E. snail. Comp. further OIc. snigell.

Schnee, m., ‘snow,’ from the equiv. MidHG. sné, OHG. snêo, m.; a common Teut. term which may be traced back to OAryan; this is all the more remarkable, since no words common to the Aryan group can be adduced for ‘hail’ and ‘rain.’ Goth. snaiws, OIc. snœ́r, AS. snâw, E. snow, Du. sneeuw. The common Teut. snaiwa-z, m., ‘snow,’ from an earlier snoigó-s (prior to the OHG. permutation snoighwós) corresponds to OSlov. sněgu, Lith. snégas, ‘snow’; allied to the Teut. root snī̆w, from pre-Teut. snī̆gh, preserved in ModHG. schneien MidHG. snîen, OHG. snîwan. To this corresponds Lat. ninguere, ‘to snow,’ and nix (nivis), ‘snow,’ Gr. νέφει, ‘it snows’ (φ equiv. to ghw), acc. γίφα, ‘snow’ (all these have lost an initial s before n); Lith. snìgti, ‘to snow,’ OIr. snechta, ‘snow,’ Zend snìż, ‘to snow.’ The Sans. root snih, ‘to become damp, melt away,’ is divergent in meaning; it must also be noted that the term for ‘snow’ differs in most of the Aryan dials. (Zend vafra, ‘snow’). Thus we have a West Aryan and Pers. (but not an Ind. and Armen.) verbal root snī̆gh, ‘to now’; the term ‘snow’ is of more recent origin. See Winter.

Schneide, f., ‘(cutting) edge, snare, gin,’

from MidHG. snîde, f., ‘edge of a sword or a knife’; allied to schneiden, from MidHG. snîden, OHG. snîdan, ‘to cut, carve, make (clothes)’; comp. Goth. sneiþan, ‘to cut, reap,’ OIc. snìða, AS. snîþan (obsolete at the beginning of the MidE. period), Du. snijden, OSax. snîthan. A common Teut. vb. from the root snī̆þ (snī̆d), ‘to cut,’ which has to correspondences in the other Aryan languages. See schnitzen. —

Schneider, m., ‘cutter, tailor,’ from the equiv. MidHG. snîdœre, m., is connected with the meaning of MidHG. snîden.

schneien, see Schnee.

Schneise, f., ‘path hewn through a wood,’ in this sense a MidG. and LG. word, in MidHG. sneite; both are derived from schneiden. The word also signifies ‘noose, snare.’

schneiteln, schneideln, vb., ‘to lop, prune,’ from late MidHG. (also sneiten), ‘to strip of the branches.’ Allied to schneiden.

schnell, adj., ‘quick, speedy, hasty,’ from MidHG. snël (ll), adj., ‘quick, nimble, brave,’ OHG. snël (ll); comp. OSax. and AS. snël (ll), ‘fresh, energetic, courageous,’ Scotch snell, ‘bitter’ (comp. E. keen in the same sense, ModHG. kühn), Du. snel, OIc. snjallr, ‘eloquent, capable, brave.’ The earlier meaning (comp. the ModHG.), was much more general, equiv. perhaps to ‘capable’; comp. bald. This common Teut. adj., unknown only to Goth., passed into Rom.; comp. the cognates of Ital. snello, ‘quick, lively.’ The origin of the Teut. adj. is obscure. — Comp. Schnalle. ModHG. schnellen, vb., ‘to jerk, toss,’ from MidHG. snellen (pret. snalte), ‘to send off with a jerk; move on rapidly.’

Schnepfe, f., ‘snipe,’ from the equiv. MidHG. snëpfe, m., OHG. snëpfo, m., snëpfa, f.; comp. Du. snep, MidE. snîpe, E. snipe, from the root snī̆pp. Also AS. snîte, E. snite?. The HG. word passed as sgneppa into the Ital. dials. The origin of the cognates is obscure.

Schneppe, f., ‘nozzle, spout,’ ModHG. only, a phonetic rendering of the earlier LG. snebbe. Comp. Du. sneb, ‘beak’; hence connected with Schnabel.

schneuzen, vb., ‘to blow one's nose, snuff (a candle),’ from the equiv. MidHG. sniuzen, OHG. snûzen; comp. the equiv. Du. snuiten; OIc. snýta. To this Schnauze is allied. The Teut. root snût appears as snutt in MidHG. snuz, ‘clogging of the