Where does “nevar” come from?

nevar (Galician) comes from Old Portuguese nevar, from Vulgar Latin nivare, from Latin nix, from Proto-Italic sniks, from Proto-Indo-European snígʷʰs — snow.

nevar (Galician): to snow; first/third-person singular future...

Definitions

  1. to snow; first/third-person singular future...

Ancestry of “nevar”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Portuguesenevar—
2Vulgar Latinnivarepresent active infinitive of *nivō
3Latinnixsnow; white hair
4Proto-Italicsnikssnow
5Proto-Indo-Europeansnígʷʰssnow

Words derived from “nevar”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European snígʷʰs →Every word from Proto-Italic sniks →Every word from Latin nix →