sneeuw

• IPA^(key): /sneːu̯/

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• Hyphenation: sneeuw
• Rhymes: -eːu̯

From Middle Dutch snêe, from Old Dutch snēo, from Proto-Germanic *snaiwaz. The predominant form in earlier Modern Dutch was snee (compare German Schnee). The form sneeuw, which continues the Middle Dutch inflected stem, was reinforced by the verb sneeuwen (“to snow”).

sneeuw f (uncountable)

1. snow (frozen precipitation)
2. snow, static, noise (on a display screen)

• snee (now dialectal, otherwise obsolete)

• Afrikaans: sneeu
• Negerhollands: sneew
• → Papiamentu: sneu, sneeuw
• → Sranan Tongo: snew

Calque of English snow, first attested in Dutch in the meaning of "cocaine" in 1934.

sneeuw f (uncountable)

1. (slang) cocaine

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

sneeuw

1. first-person singular present indicative of sneeuwen
2. imperative of sneeuwen

• sneeuw – Woordenboek van Populair Taalgebruik