snjór

• snjár, snær

From Old Norse snjór, snjár, snær.

• IPA^(key): /stnjouːr/
• Rhymes: -ouːr

snjór m (genitive singular snjós or (dated) snjóvar or snjóar, nominative plural snjóar or (dated) snjóvar)

1. snow

   Snjórinn leysir. ― The snow is thawing.

• The dative singular form snævi is suppleted from the alternate form snær.

• snjóa

• hjarn (“crust of snow”)

• Ásgeir Blöndal Magnússon (1989) Íslensk orðsifjabók, Reykjavík: Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, →ISBN (Available at Málið.is under the “Eldri orðabækur” tab.)
• Kristín Bjarnadóttir, editor (2002–2025), “snjór”, in Beygingarlýsing íslensks nútímamáls [The Database of Modern Icelandic Inflection] (in Icelandic), Reykjavík: The Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies
• Mörður Árnason (2019) Íslensk orðabók, 5th edition, Reykjavík: Forlagið
• “snjór” in the Dictionary of Modern Icelandic (in Icelandic) and ISLEX (in the Nordic languages)

• snjár, snær

From Proto-Germanic *snaiwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *snóygʷʰos; cognates include the Old English snāw and the Old High German snēo.

snjór m (genitive snjóvar)

1. snow

• Icelandic: snjór, snjár, snær
• Faroese: snjógvur
• Norn: snju, snaa
• Norwegian Nynorsk: snjo, snø; (dialectal) snjór'e, sny
• Norwegian Bokmål: snø
• Jamtish: snǿ
• Elfdalian: sniųo
• Old Swedish: sniōr
  • Swedish: snö
• Old Danish: sniō, snø̄, snē
  • Danish: sne
    • Norwegian Bokmål: sne
  • Scanian: sný
• Gutnish: snåi

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “snjór”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 393; also available at the Internet Archive