névé

Borrowed from French névé, from the Franco-Provençal (Savoyard) term névi (“mass of snow”), from Latin nix, nivis (“snow”).

• IPA^(key): /neɪˈveɪ/

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• Rhymes: -eɪ

névé (plural névés)

1. The firn or snowfield at the head of a glacier.
   • 1913, R. F. Scott, chapter XVIII, in Leonard Huxley, editor, Scott's Last Expedition‎, volume I:

     Then we started up a rise, and to our annoyance found ourselves amongst crevasses once more—very hard, smooth névé between high ridges at the edge of crevasses, and therefore very difficult to get foothold to pull the sledges.

• névé on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Névé in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

• Even, eevn, even, even-

Franco-Provençal névi

• IPA^(key): /ne.ve/

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névé m (plural névés)

1. névé

• → English: névé

• “névé”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.