Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Done, made, performed, etc., quickly and unexpectedly, or without deliberation.
A quick breaking or cracking sound or the action of producing such a sound. · A sudden break. · An attempt to seize, bite, attack, or grab. · The act of snapping the fingers; making a sound by pressing a finger against the thumb and suddenly releasing to strike the hand.
The cry used in a game of snap when winning a hand. · "I've got one the same!", "Me too!" · Used to express agreement. · Used in place of an expletive to express surprise, usually in response to a negative statement or news; often used facetiously.
To fracture or break apart suddenly. · To give forth or produce a sharp cracking noise; to crack. · To attempt to seize or bite with the teeth, beak, etc. · To attempt to seize with eagerness.
Etymology tree Middle Dutch snappen Dutch snappenbor. Low German snappenbor. English snap From Dutch snappen (“to bite; seize”) or Low German snappen (“to bite; seize”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *snappōn, from Proto-Germanic *snappōną (“to snap; snatch; chatter”), intensive form of *snapāną (”to snap; grab”, whence Old Norse snapa (“to get; scrounge”)), from Proto-Indo-European *snop-; compare Lithuanian snãpas (“beak, bill”). (One alternative hypothesis links the Germanic words to *snu-, an expressive root deriving words meaning “nose”, “snout”, “sniff” etc., but this is phonetically unsound.) In any case influenced by onomatopoeia; note expressions such as snip-snap, containing the formally unrelated snip. Cognate with West Frisian snappe (“to get; catch; snap”), German schnappen (“to grab”), Swedish snappa (“to snatch”). The verb is derived from the noun.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Borrowed-form mentionsnappennl · to bite; seize
- Borrowed-form mentionsnappennds · to bite; seize
- Derivation mention*snappōngmw-pro
- Derivation mention*snappōnągem-pro · to snap; snatch; chatter
- Cognate mentionsnapanon · to get; scrounge
- Derivation mention*snep-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionsnãpaslt
- Cognate mentionsnappefy
- Cognate mentionschnappende
- Cognate mentionsnappasv
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