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Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch snoeyen. Further etymology is unknown, although several theories exist:
- One theory suggests a common source with Old High German nōen (“to carve, to shave off”), but a lack of other cognates makes this unlikely;
- In older texts, and dialectally, the word is synonymous with snoepen (“to snack, to eat something tasty”), which originally referred to picking fruits or other crops;
- A link has been suggested to a group of words starting with sn-, which all refer to a "pointed protruding head or beak", such as snavel (“beak”) and snuit (“snout”);
- Perhaps a merging of snijden (“to cut”) and groeien (“to grow”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsnu.i̯ə(n)/
- Hyphenation: snoei‧en
- Rhymes: -ui̯ən
Verb
snoeien
- (transitive, intransitive) to prune
- Snoeien doet groeien. ― Pruning causes growth.
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