snee

• (Received Pronunciation, UK, US) enPR: snē, IPA^(key): /sniː/
• Rhymes: -iː

Compare Dutch snee, snede, and German Schneide.

snee (plural snees)

1. (obsolete) A large knife.

snee (third-person singular simple present snees, present participle sneeing, simple past and past participle sneed)

1. Obsolete spelling of sny (abound, swarm, teem, be infested). [17th century]

• snick or snee

• Nees, eens, esne, seen, sene

• IPA^(key): /sneː/

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• Hyphenation: snee
• Rhymes: -eː

From older snede with syncope of d, from Middle Dutch snede.

snee f (plural sneden or snedes, diminutive sneetje n)

1. cut (an opening resulting from cutting)
2. slice (a piece cut off from a whole)

• snede

• snijden

• → Papiamentu: snechi

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

snee f (uncountable)

1. (now dialectal, otherwise obsolete) Alternative form of sneeuw

• snee on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

• eens

From Old Dutch snēo, from Proto-Germanic *snaiwaz.

snêe m or f

1. snow

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: sneeuw, snee
  • Afrikaans: sneeu
  • Negerhollands: sneew
  • → Papiamentu: sneu, sneeuw
  • → Sranan Tongo: snew
• Limburgish: snieë

• “snee”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “snee”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN