From Proto-Celtic *snigʷyeti (“to snow”), from Proto-Indo-European *sneygʷʰ- (“to stick to”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsʲn̠ʲi.ɣʲəðʲ/
  • (Blasse) [ˈsʲn̠ʲi.ɣʲɪðʲ]
  • (Griffith) [ˈsʲn̠ʲi.ɣʲɨðʲ]

snigid (conjunct ·snig, verbal noun snige)

1. to drip, drop, flow (of liquids, hair, sand)
   • c. 800–825, Diarmait, Milan Glosses on the Psalms, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 7–483, Ml. 89^c15

     amal bróin n-ailgen sniges hi cnai

     as the gentle rain that drops into a fleece.

• snechtae (“snow”)

• Middle Irish: snigid
  • Irish: snigh