snow

• n. 雪、積雪、雪
• vi. 降雪
• vt. 降らせる；白くする
• n.（雪）人名；（英）Snow.

中英語のsnowから、古英語のsnawから、原ゲルマン語の*snaiwaz, snowから、PIE *sneigwh, to snowから。

snow

snow: [OE] Snow is an ancient word, with relatives throughout the Indo-European languages. Its ultimate ancestor was Indo- European *snigwh- or *snoigwho-. This also produced Latin nix (source of French neige, Italian neve, and Spanish nieve), obsolete Welsh nyf, Russian sneg, Czech snóh, Latvian sniegs, etc. Its prehistoric Germanic descendant was *snaiwaz, which has evolved into German schnee, Dutch sneeuw, Swedish sn?, Danish sne, and English snow.

snow (n.)

Old English snaw "snow, that which falls as snow; a fall of snow; a snowstorm," from Proto-Germanic *snaiwaz (cognates: Old Saxon and Old High German sneo, Old Frisian and Middle Low German sne, Middle Dutch snee, Dutch sneeuw, German Schnee, Old Norse snjor, Gothic snaiws "snow"), from PIE root *sniegwh- "snow; to snow" (cognates: Greek nipha, Latin nix (genitive nivis), Old Irish snechta, Irish sneachd, Welsh nyf, Lithuanian sniegas, Old Prussian snaygis, Old Church Slavonic snegu, Russian snieg', Slovak sneh "snow"). The cognate in Sanskrit, snihyati, came to mean "he gets wet." As slang for "cocaine" it is attested from 1914.

snow (v.)

c. 1300, from the noun, replacing Old English sniwan, which would have yielded modern snew (which existed as a parallel form until 17c. and, in Yorkshire, even later), from the root of snow (n.). The Old English verb is cognate with Middle Dutch sneuuwen, Dutch sneeuwen, Old Norse snjova, Swedish sn?ga.

Also tikke as snow tat snew,
Or al so hail tat stormes blew.
[Robert Mannyng of Brunne, transl. Wace's "Chronicle," c. 1330]

The figurative sense of "overwhelm; surround, cover, and imprison" (as deep snows can do to livestock) is 1880, American English, in phrase to snow (someone) under. Snow job "strong, persistent persuasion in a dubious cause" is World War II armed forces slang, probably from the same metaphoric image.

1. The first snow came a month earlier than usual.

初雪は例年より1ヶ月早く降った。

2.I 'd been a fool letting him snow me with his big ideas.

私は愚かで、彼のでたらめな吹聴にだまされてしまった。

3.The snow was light and noiseless as it floated down.

雪が軽やかに舞い降り、音もなく。

4.A blizzard was blasting great drifts of snow across the lake.

吹雪が大きな雪を挟んで湖面を吹き抜けている。

5.He braced his shoulders as the snow slashed across his face.

雪がナイフで切られたように顔に吹きつけ、彼は肩を引き締めた。