different between snive vs snite

English

Pronunciation

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

Verb

snive (third-person singular simple present snives, present participle sniving, simple past and past participle snived)

1. Alternative spelling of sny (abound, swarm, teem, be infested).

Anagrams

• Nevis, Viens, Vines, veins, vines, visne

English

Etymology 1

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Noun

snite (plural snites)

1. (obsolete or Scotland) A snipe.

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Etymology 2

From Middle English sniten, from Old English sn?tan (“to clear or blow the nose”), from Proto-Germanic *sn?tijan? (“to blow the nose”). Cognate with Old Norse snýta (“to blow the nose”), whence Danish snyde and Swedish snyta sig, and with German sich schneuzen. Related to snout and snot.

Alternative forms

• snet

Verb

snite (third-person singular simple present snites, present participle sniting, simple past and past participle snited)

1. (obsolete or Scotland, transitive) to blow (one's nose)
2. (obsolete or Scotland, transitive) to snuff (a candle)

References

• Thomson, J. - Etymons of English words - pg. 199

References

• snite in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Stein, Tiens, inset, neist, nites, senti, set in, sient, stein, tines, tsine

Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [??n???t??]

Verb

snite

1. past participle of snigh (“pour (down), flow, course; filter through, percolate; glide, crawl”)

Mutation

Further reading

• "snite" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

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Etymology

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Verb

snite

1. to appear or show oneself

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , 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, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN