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Sch ‘to wind,’ to which the secondary sense of ‘secrecy’ may belong;   smuigen, ‘to enjoy oneself secretly.’ ,, ‘to smile good-naturedly, simper,’ frequentative of smutzen, smotzen, ‘to smirk, smile good-naturedly,’ to which  smutz,   , ‘kiss,’ is also probably allied. It is perhaps connected with, (from  smackezen).  ,, ‘talk, chaffering,’ only; from  schĕmûôth, ‘news, tales’; hence  smousen, ‘to chaffer’?.   ,, ‘dirt, filth,’ from the  smuz (-tzes), , allied to  smotzen, ‘to be dirty’; also to  smet, ‘spot, dirt,’ smetten, ‘to get stained,’ smodderen, ‘to soil,’  smut,  and ,  bismitten, bismoteren, bismudden, ‘to stain, soil.’ It is uncertain whether these words are late graded forms of  smitzen, ‘to rub over.’   ,, ‘beak, bill,’ from the  snabel, ,  snabul, ; corresponding to  snavel, ‘beak, trunk’ (of an elephant), sneb, ‘beak,’  snavel, ‘mouth.’ To these, from the relation of  to  (Aryan root meld, smeld), the following are also allied —  neb, , ‘beak,’  nib,  nębb, ‘beak, face,’  nef, , ‘nose’ (as well as ‘sharp-scented’). From are derived the cognates of  niffo, ‘snout, trunk.’  snabja-, snabala- (from an Aryan root snap, nap), agrees with  snápas, ‘beak.’ , , and.   ,, ‘chit-chat, talk,’ only, formed from , , and  snakken, ‘to chatter, babble’; to this is allied  , ‘merry tale,’ from , also ‘merry fellow.’   snaak, ‘buffoon.’   ,, ‘gnat, midge,’ from the  snâke,  and ; the sounds point to  *snâko (from the base *snâggo;  , from the base *hâggo). The  schnake,, ‘water-snake,’ is different from this word, and corresponds to  snake,  snăcu, ‘snake,’  snákr, snókr, ‘snake’ ( snok, ‘water-snake’).   ,, ‘buckle, clasp,’ from snalle, , ‘buckle,’ shoe-buckle,’ allied to  snal, , ‘quick movement’ (for the proper term for buckle see ). Hence the word is probably named from the rapid movement of the spring. See the following word and.  , ‘to smack, snap, crack,’ from  snalzen, intensive of snallen, ‘to move with a noise peculiar to the rapid movement of the fingers or the tongue’; allied to. ,, ‘to snap, snatch,’ from  snappen, ‘to snap, chatter.’ The latter, like  snappen ( to snap), is an intensive of  snaben, ‘to snap, snort’; allied to the root snab contained in. — , ‘to limp,’  snappen, ‘to stumble,’ is etymologically distinct from this verb.  ,, ‘highwayman,’ from the late  snaphan; yet it seems that the word signified  a sort of musket, although this meaning is first recorded at the end of the 17th , and hence is later than ‘mounted highwayman,’ which occurs even in the 15th ; the signification ‘musket’ was afterwards transferred to the man armed with such a weapon. snaphaan, ‘gun, musket, bandit.’   , ,. ‘dram, glass of gin or brandy, liquor,’ from the  snapps, which means  ‘draught, mouthful,’ and is connected with. <section end="Schnaps" /> ,, ‘to snore, snort,’ from the  snarchen, snarcheln; allied to  snarren, ‘to rattle, crash,’ like  to. snorken, ‘to snore, chatter, boast’; also snun-ten, ‘to snore,’ with a different intensive suffix,  to snort (  snar-z, ‘twittering of the swallow,’ also an abusive epithet), and without a suffix  snorin ( *snorian),  to snore. From the root snar numerous terms have been formed in imitation of sound (see also and );   snorren, ‘to hum, whiz, chirp,’  to snarl, and snurls, ‘nostrils,’ and in the non- languages perhaps  snarglýs, ‘snot.’ ,, ‘to rattle, drone,’ from snarren, ‘to rattle, crash, chatter’; see the preceding word. — To this is allied , ‘landrail,’ only, in  snarz, ‘landrail.’ ,, ‘cackle, gabble, chatter,’ from snateren, ‘to cackle, croak (of frogs), clatter (of storks), chatter’;   snater, ‘beak,’ snateren, ‘to chatter, boast.’ The stem is not found elsewhere. ,, ‘to snort,’ from  snûben, ‘to snore’;   snuiven, ‘to snort.’ From the