Etymograph

English

snipe

Snipe comes from Old Norse snípa.

  1. Old Norsec. 800–1350snípa
  2. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500snipe
  3. Englishearliest quotation c. 1603same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Old Norsec. 800–1350snípa
  2. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500snipe
  3. Englishearliest quotation c. 1603same form

Earliest quotation: c. 1603, William Shakespeare, Othello: “For I mine own gained knowledge should profane,/ If…”

first attested first attested in 1824 (as stated in the etymology)

Every English word from Old Norse snípa

Today it means

noun Any of various limicoline game birds of the genera Gallinago, Lymnocryptes and Coenocorypha in the family Scolopacidae, having a long, slender, nearly straight beak.

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Etymograph / Old Norse snípa / snipe

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