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Sch nose,’  snot, ‘snot’ (snottolf, ‘snotty nose’),  snot (tt),  snot. Allied to a root snū̆þ, in  snudel, snuder, ‘stoppage of the nose,’  and  snûden, ‘to snort, snore.’ ,, ‘to trim up, dress smartly,’ only, allied to a  , ‘adornment, finery’; unknown to the older. Of obscure origin.  ',, ‘snap’ (of the fingers), only, allied to ,  snipfen,  snippen, ‘to snap.’ Akin to ', ‘to snip, chip,’ formed from ;   snippelen, ‘to cut in pieces, mutilate,’  snip. —  ,, ‘snappish,’ only, formed from  snebbig, ‘flippant,’ which is connected with sneb, ‘beak’; allied also to  snibbin, ‘to blame’?.  ,, ‘cut, incision, slice, fashion,’ from and  snit, ‘cut, wound, circumcision, harvest’; allied to. So too ,, ‘cut, slice, chop,’ from snite,  snita, , ‘slice of bread, morsel. —   ,, ‘chive,’ from snitilouch,  snitilouh,  ‘leek for cutting.’ —  ,, ‘to cut, carve, chip,’ snitzen, intensive of , ‘to cut in pieces, carve.’ —  ,, ‘blunder,’ allied to , ‘to deceive oneself’? or to, ‘trifle’?.  ,, ‘to snuff, pant,’ only, formed from ; so too , ‘to sniff.’  , adj, ‘worthless, base, vile, insolent,’ from snœde,, ‘contemptible, poor, pitiable, trifling, bad, arrogant, ruthless’; in  the passive sense preponderates, so too in Luther. From the 17th the modern active signification ‘contemptuous’ appears. *snôdi is not recorded;  snood, ‘base, malicious’;  snauðr, ‘poor, needy,’ sneyða, ‘to rob,’  besnyþian, ‘to rob.’ Akin to  snoðenn, ‘thin-haired’; this meaning also belongs to  snœde, which is therefore identical in form with  besnoten,  , ‘close, sparing.’ The pre- root snaut. snū̆t, appearing in these cognates, probably meant ‘needy’; it is scarcely connected perhaps with  and  snûden (see ), ‘to mock, scorn.’   ,, ‘spiral, scroll,’ only, probably akin to  snarha, snaraha, , ‘noose’?.   ,, ‘sheep with a short tail,’  only, formed from the   snucke.   ,, ‘to sniff, smell,’ only, formed from  and  snuffelen, ‘to smell,’ allied to  snuf, ‘scenting’;   to snuff, sniff, to snivel (also the  snivel,  snofl); see the following word. <section end="schnüffeln" /> <section begin="Schnupfen" /> ,, ‘cold (in the head), rheum,’ from the  snū̆pfe,  and. The root snū̆pp contained in these words, with which  and  snoppa,, ‘snout,’ are connected, is identical with the  root snuf (snū̆b) in  and. It may be also allied to the Aryan roots snū̆p and snū̆t (in ). <section end="Schnupfen" /> <section begin="Schnuppe" /> ,, ‘candle-snuff,’ only, formed from  snuppe,  , ‘blowing one's nose,’  being also used of ‘snuffing a candle’;   snuiten, ‘to blow one's nose, snuff a candle,’  snuff. <section end="Schnuppe" /> <section begin="Schnur" />  (1.),, ‘string, cord, line,’ from and  snuor, , ‘string, bond, rope’;   snôrjô, , ‘basket, basket-work,’  snœre, ‘twisted cord,’  snoer, ‘string’; allied to the Aryan root snô, snē̆, ‘to plait’ , with which  snô-d, ‘fillet,’ as well as  snáth, ‘thread,’ is connected.

 (2.), (mostly obsolete in the  e.g., Swiss and ), ‘daughter-in-law,’ from the   snur (snuor),  snura (snora), ; with this is connected the  derivative  snürche ( *snurihha). Corresponding to snore,  snoru,  snore (obsolete in ),  snore,  snor, snør, ‘daughter-in-law’ ( *snuzô,, is by chance not recorded). A common Aryan term for ‘daughter-in-law’ ( also other terms common to Aryan for degrees of relationship, such as, , &c.), in the Aryan form snusã ( snušã, snŭcha), and Aryan snusū̆s, in  nurus (for snusus),  νυός (for *σνυσύς). Aryan snusã, wife,’ has been regarded as a derivative of Aryan sū̆nū̆-, ‘son,’ on account of, the term for. <section end="Schnur" /> ,, ‘to hum, whiz, buzz, purr,’ from snurren, ‘to rustle, drink (of beasts).’ Allied to  , , ‘humming-top, farce,’ and the derivative , ‘droll’;   snurring,  snürrinc (also snurrœre),