Snowy
/ˈsnoʊi/noun
Covered with, falling as, or resembling snow.
Did you know?‘Snowy’ is built on the same old Germanic snow-word that gave English snow, German Schnee, and Dutch sneeuw, all tracing back to a deep prehistoric root for the white, falling stuff.
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Indo-European
PIE
*sneigʷʰ-
“to snow, or snow”
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*snaiwaz
“snow”
Old English
OE
snāw
“snow”
Middle English
ME
snowi
“snowy; covered with snow”
Modern English
English
snowy
“covered with snow; resembling or marked by snow”