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Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English snow, from Old English snāw, from Proto-West Germanic *snaiw.
Pronunciation
Noun
sneow
- snow
1867, “BIT OF DIALOGUE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 111:Aar's a dole o' sneow apa greound to-die.- There is a deal of snow upon the ground to-day.
References
- Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 68