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A type of old snow which has gone through multiple thaw and refreeze cycles and thus is made of numerous small icy grains, though it is not nearly as saturated with water as snowcone slush is; can be hard or somewhat soft depending on recent and current weather conditions.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: névé
Antonyms: none provided
Borrowed from German Firn, from Alemannic German firn (“last year's”), from Old High German firni (“old”), from Proto-West Germanic [Term?], from Proto-Germanic *firnijaz, *fernaz (“foregoing, previous”), from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“forth, forward, across, through”); cognate with Old English fyrn (“former”), Old Norse forn (“old”), and Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌽𐌴𐌹𐍃 (fairneis, “old”).
Across languages
Translations
22 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Arabic:
ثَلْج حُبَيْبَي
(ṯalj ḥubaybay)
— A type of old snow which has gone through multiple thaw and refreeze cycles
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Belarusian:
зерналёд
(zjernaljód)
— A type of old snow which has gone through multiple thaw and refreeze cycles
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Belarusian:
фірн
(firn)
— A type of old snow which has gone through multiple thaw and refreeze cycles
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Bulgarian:
фирн
(firn)
— A type of old snow which has gone through multiple thaw and refreeze cycles
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Czech:
firn
— A type of old snow which has gone through multiple thaw and refreeze cycles
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Finnish:
firn
— A type of old snow which has gone through multiple thaw and refreeze cycles
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Finnish:
firn-lumi
— A type of old snow which has gone through multiple thaw and refreeze cycles
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French:
névé
— A type of old snow which has gone through multiple thaw and refreeze cycles
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German:
Firn
— A type of old snow which has gone through multiple thaw and refreeze cycles
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German:
Fiire
— A type of old snow which has gone through multiple thaw and refreeze cycles
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Italian:
nevato
— A type of old snow which has gone through multiple thaw and refreeze cycles
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Old East Slavic:
серенъ
(serenŭ)
— A type of old snow which has gone through multiple thaw and refreeze cycles
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Polish:
firn
— A type of old snow which has gone through multiple thaw and refreeze cycles
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Russian:
фирн
(firn)
— A type of old snow which has gone through multiple thaw and refreeze cycles
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Russian:
серён
(serjón)
— A type of old snow which has gone through multiple thaw and refreeze cycles
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Russian:
се́рен
(séren)
— A type of old snow which has gone through multiple thaw and refreeze cycles
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Russian:
серена́
(serená)
— A type of old snow which has gone through multiple thaw and refreeze cycles
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Russian:
се́рень
(sérenʹ)
— A type of old snow which has gone through multiple thaw and refreeze cycles
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Slovak:
firn
— A type of old snow which has gone through multiple thaw and refreeze cycles
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Slovene:
ledeniški srenec
— A type of old snow which has gone through multiple thaw and refreeze cycles
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Swedish:
firn
— A type of old snow which has gone through multiple thaw and refreeze cycles
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Swedish:
firnsnö
— A type of old snow which has gone through multiple thaw and refreeze cycles
