different between shee vs snee

English

Pronoun

shee

1. Obsolete spelling of she.
   • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost Book V

     ...but Eve
     [...]
     Stood to entertain her guest from Heav'n; no vaile
     Shee needed, Vertue-proof, no thought infirme
     Alter'd her cheek...

Anagrams

• eesh

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish síd, síth. Cognate with Irish sí (“fairy mound”).

Noun

shee m (genitive singular shee, plural sheeghyn)

1. fairy

Synonyms

• sheeaghan

Related terms

• mooinjer veggey (“fairies”)

Mutation

Navajo

Postposition

shee

1. by means of me, because of me

Inflection

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, UK, US) enPR: sn?, IPA^(key): /sni?/

Etymology 1

Compare Dutch snee, snede, and German Schneide.

Noun

snee (plural snees)

1. (obsolete) A large knife.

Etymology 2

Verb

snee (third-person singular simple present snees, present participle sneeing, simple past and past participle sneed)

1. Obsolete spelling of sny (abound, swarm, teem, be infested). [17th century]

Anagrams

• Nees, eens, esne, seen, sene

Dutch

Alternative forms

• snede

Etymology

From older snede with syncope of d, from Middle Dutch snede.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sne?/
• Hyphenation: snee
• Rhymes: -e?

Noun

snee f (plural sneden or snedes, diminutive sneetje n)

1. cut (an opening resulting from cutting)
2. slice (a piece cut off from a whole)

Related terms

• snijden

Further reading

• snee on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

Anagrams

• eens

Middle Dutch

Etymology

From Old Dutch sn?o, from Proto-Germanic *snaiwaz.

Noun

snêe m or f

1. snow

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Dutch: sneeuw
  • Afrikaans: sneeu
  • ? Papiamentu: sneu
  • ? Sranan Tongo: snew
• Limburgish: snieë

Further reading

• “snee”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929) , “snee”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, ?ISBN