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Where does “sniks” come from?

sniks (Proto-Italic) comes from Proto-Indo-European snígʷʰs — snow.

sniks (Proto-Italic): snow

Definitions

  1. snow

Ancestry of “sniks”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Indo-Europeansnígʷʰssnow

Words derived from “sniks”

  • Nevada
  • Nevis
  • Nevadan
  • nival
  • Nevisian
  • niveous
  • Nevadian
  • subnival
  • nevadite
  • nivometric
  • nevadaite
  • nivo
  • nivalem
  • nivalis
  • nix
  • niveus
  • nivarius
  • nivico
  • nivem
  • nevera
  • Nieves
  • quitanieves
  • níveo
  • nevada
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