névé

Meaning

1. The firn or snowfield at the head of a glacier.
2. Young, granular snow on a glacier, which has been partially melted and refrozen since deposition, but has not yet turned into firn by surviving a full season of ablation.

Synonyms

firn

Translations

névé

Firn

Schneefeld

nevaio

nevero

helero

Pronounced as (IPA)

/neɪˈveɪ/

Etymology

Borrowed from French névé, from the Franco-Provençal (Savoyard) term névi (“mass of snow”), from Latin nivatus "snow-cooled" (< Latin nix, nivis (“snow”)).