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Today's Word "Niveous"

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niveous \NIV-ee-ehs\ (adjective) - Resembling snow, snow-like.

"The wipers couldn't clear the nivosity quickly enough, so we pulled over until the blizzard died down."

 

From Latin niveus, from nix (nig-s), niv- "snow" which developed into French neige, Spanish nieve, and Italian neve. The underlying Proro-Indo-European from, believe it or not, is *sneigwh-, with several sounds that have worn off over the years. So the same PIE root gave us English "snow" and Slavic (Russian, Bulgarian, Serbian) sneg "snow."


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