snite

== English == === Etymology 1 === From Middle English snyte, from Old English snite. ==== Noun ==== snite (plural snites) (obsolete or Scotland) A snipe. === Etymology 2 === From Middle English snyten, from Old English snȳtan (“to clear or blow the nose”), from Proto-Germanic *snūtijaną (“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) (obsolete or Scotland, transitive) to blow (one's nose) (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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. === Anagrams === Tiens, set in, Tines, senti, nites, tsien, set-in, tsine, Stein, neist, -stein, inset, sient, stein, tines == Irish == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): [ˈʃn̠ʲɪtʲə] === Verb === snite past participle of snigh (“pour (down), flow, course; filter through, percolate; glide, crawl”) === Mutation === === Further reading === Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “snite”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla [Irish–English Dictionary], Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN == Middle High German == === Pronunciation === IPA(key): (before 13th CE) /ˈs̠nitə/ === Verb === snite second-person singular past indicative of snīden first/third-person singular past subjunctive of snīden == Yola == === Etymology === From Middle English snyten, from Old English snȳtan, from Proto-West Germanic *snūtijaną. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /sniːt/ === Verb === snite to clear one's nose === References === Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828), 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, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 68