Snow Definition
- to weigh down or overwhelm with work, etc.
- to defeat decisively
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Snow
Origin of Snow
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From Middle English snow, snaw, from Old English snāw (“snow"), from Proto-Germanic *snaiwaz (“snow"), from Proto-Indo-European *snóygÊ·Ê°os (“snow"). 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), Armenian Õ±ÕµÕ¸Ö‚Õ¶ (jyun), Ancient Greek νίφα (nípha), dialectal Albanian nehë (“place where the snow melts"). Also, from the same Indo-European root *sneygÊ·Ê°- (“to snow") comes English snew.
From Wiktionary
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Low German Snaue, or Dutch snaauw, from Low German Snau (“a snout, a beak").
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Middle English from Old English snāw sneigwh- in Indo-European roots
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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