Where does “snagi” come from?

snagi (Old Norse) comes from Proto-Germanic snakk-, from Proto-Germanic snakaną, from Proto-Indo-European sneg- — to crawl, creeping thing.

snagi (Old Norse): clothes peg

Definitions

  1. clothes peg

Ancestry of “snagi”, step by step

snagi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-Germanic snakk-

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanicsnakk-—
2Proto-Germanicsnakanąto crawl
3Proto-Indo-Europeansneg-to crawl, creeping thing

via Proto-Germanic snēgg

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanicsnēgg—

Words derived from “snagi”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European sneg- →Every word from Proto-Germanic snakaną →Every word from Proto-Germanic snakk- →