different between sneeze vs sneezed
sneeze
English
Etymology
From Middle English snesen (“to sneeze”), alteration of earlier fnesen (“to sneeze”), from Old English fn?osan (“to snort, sneeze”), from Proto-West Germanic *fneusan, from Proto-Germanic *fneusan? (“to sneeze, snort”), from Proto-Indo-European *pnew- (“to breathe, pant, snort, sneeze”). Cognate with dialectal Dutch fniezen (“to sneeze”), Old Norse fnýsa (“to snort”).
Compare neeze, from Middle English nesen, from Old English *hn?osan (“to sneeze”), cognate to Old Norse hnjósa (“to sneeze”), Old High German niosan (“to sneeze”).
It has been suggested that the change could be due to a misinterpretation of the uncommon initial sequence fn- as ?n- (sn- written with a long s), although the change is regular, seen also in snore and snort from Middle English fnoren and fnorten, and in late Middle English snatted from earlier Middle English fnatted (“snub-nosed”). The fn- forms of all these words fell out of use in the 1400s.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sni?z/
- Rhymes: -i?z
Verb
sneeze (third-person singular simple present sneezes, present participle sneezing, simple past sneezed or (nonstandard) snoze, past participle sneezed or (nonstandard) snozen)
- (intransitive) To expel air as a reflex induced by an irritation in the nose.
- (intransitive) To expel air as if the nose were irritated.
Synonyms
- (to expel air as a reflex): neeze, sternutate (medicine)
Derived terms
- nothing to sneeze at
Translations
Noun
sneeze (plural sneezes)
- An act of sneezing.
- Synonyms: (medicine) sternutation, (medicine) ptarmus
Translations
See also
- achoo
- bless you
References
Anagrams
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sneezed
English
Verb
sneezed
- simple past tense and past participle of sneeze
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