snow

Significat (English)

Noun

1. The frozen, crystalline state of water that falls as precipitation.
2. Any similar frozen form of a gas or liquid.
3. A snowfall; a blanket of frozen, crystalline water.
4. A shade of the color white.
5. The moving pattern of random dots displayed on a television, etc., when no transmission signal is being received.
6. (slang) Cocaine.
7. Marine snow.
8. (informal) Clipping of snow tires.

Verb

1. To have snow fall from the sky.
2. (colloquial) To hoodwink someone, especially by presenting confusing information.
3. To bluff in draw poker by refusing to draw any cards.

Synonyms

ice

🧊

coke

snowfall

cocaine

nose candy

hail

blow

bamboozle

lead by the nose

hoodwink

frost

play false

sleet

bluff

snowdrift

damp

pull the wool over someone’s eyes

C

C

snowy

pelt

rime

shower

🚿

silver

slush

snowing

snowstorm

Snow White

throw

toot

white horse

whiten

whiteness

winter

⛷️

bluff out

falling snow

gray hair

grey hair

snow-storm

something white

powder snow

gnar

street drug

white lady

snow tyre

rising water

snowshower

Bolivian marching powder

yola

plenty white

advantage

snaw

bud

clean

coca

cod

cornice

dew

down

dust

enmesh

entangle

eye

👁️

grouser

hoarfrost

hoar frost

hoar-frost

icicle

mist

opium

Pronunciat com a (IPA)

/snəʊ/

Etimologia (English)

Inherited from anglès mitjà: snow

Inherited from anglès antic: snāw

Cognate with escocès: snaw

Cognate with frisó occidental: snie

Cognate with neerlandès: sneeuw

Cognate with alemany: Schnee

Cognate with danès: sne

Cognate with noruec: snø

Cognate with suec: snö

Cognate with islandès: snjór

Cognate with llatí: nix

Cognate with rus: снег

Cognate with grec antic: νίφα

Cognate with albanès: nehë

Cognate with sànscrit: स्नेह

Cognate with baix alemany: -

In summary

From Middle English snow, snaw, from Old English snāw (“snow”), from Proto-West Germanic *snaiw, from Proto-Germanic *snaiwaz (“snow”), from Proto-Indo-European *snóygʷʰos (“snow”), from the root *sneygʷʰ-.
Cognate with Scots snaw (“snow”), West Frisian snie (“snow”), Dutch sneeuw (“snow”), German Schnee (“snow”), Danish sne (“snow”), Norwegian snø (“snow”), Swedish snö (“snow”), Icelandic snjór (“snow”), Latin nix (“snow”), Russian снег (sneg), Ancient Greek νίφα (nípha), dialectal Albanian nehë (“place where the snow melts”), Sanskrit स्नेह (snéha, “oil, grease”).
The extended senses all trace back to the appearance of the weather phenomenon.