snow

Oznaczający (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

Wymawiane jako (IPA)

/snəʊ/

Etymologia (English)

Inherited from średnioangielski: snow

Inherited from staroangielski: snāw

Cognate with scots: snaw

Cognate with zachodniofryzyjski: snie

Cognate with niderlandzki: sneeuw

Cognate with niemiecki: Schnee

Cognate with duński: sne

Cognate with norweski: snø

Cognate with szwedzki: snö

Cognate with islandzki: snjór

Cognate with łaciński: nix

Cognate with rosyjski: снег

Cognate with starogrecki: νίφα

Cognate with albański: nehë

Cognate with sanskryt: स्नेह

Cognate with dolnoniemiecki: -

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.