Noun: nieue
Gender: f
Sample Sentences
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De color es muy blanca tanto q̃ ſemeia pedaço de nieue elada ⁊ no a claridat ni la paſſa el uiso. (It is very white in color, so that is looks like a piece of frozen snow; and it has no transparency, nor can one see through it.) [c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 12v:]
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Et la uertud della es atal q̃ si la puſierẽ en logar do fazẽ danno lluuias o nieues, tuelle lo. (And one of its virtues is such that if it were placed where the rain or the snow cause harm, it stops it.) [c. 1250, Alfonso X, Lapidario, f. 96r:]
Nouns inflected like nieue
semana,
sennal,
sangre,
sangne,
siesta,
siella,
çanahoria,
companna,
yantar,
pergamino,
fazienda,
jargonça,
obscuridat,
deuinança,
persona,
culuebra,
grossura,
alcarchofa,
mercadura,
berguença, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Vulgar Latin *nevis, from Latin nix (“snow”). See: Latin Nouns '
nix'.
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