Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗adj
Quick, smart; sharp, active, brisk or nimble; lively. · Quick-witted; clever. · Harsh, severe, or stinging.
adv
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryAlternative form of snelly.
Inherited from Middle English snell (“quick, fast”) from Old English snell, snel (“lively, quick”) from Proto-West Germanic *snell, from Proto-Germanic *snellaz (“active, swift, brisk”). Akin to Dutch snel (“fast, quick”), German Low German snell (“quick”), German schnell (“quick, swift”), Yiddish שנעל (shnel, “quick, swift”), Italian snello (“quick, nimble”), Old French esnel, isnel (“snell”), and Occitan isnel, irnel (“snell”)), Old Norse snjallr (“skilful, excellent”) (whence Danish snild (“clever”)).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionsnellenm
- Inherited-form mentionsnellenm · quick, fast
- Inherited-form mentionsnellang
- Inherited-form mention*snellgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*snellazgem-pro · active, swift, brisk
- Cognate mentionsnelnl · fast, quick
- Cognate mentionschnellde · quick, swift
- Cognate mentionשנעלyi · quick, swift
- Cognate mentionsnelloit · quick, nimble
- Cognate mentionesnelfro
- Cognate mentionisneloc
- Cognate mentionsnjallrnon · skilful, excellent
- Cognate mentionsnildda · clever
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