snell

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• /snɛl/
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• snĕl
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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”)).

English surname, from the adjective snell. See also Sneller, Snelling. Also Americanized from German Schnell and Dutch snel, of the same meaning.

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14 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Dutch: snel — active, brisk
• Finnish: reipas — active, brisk
• Finnish: riuska — active, brisk
• Old English: snell — active, brisk
• Old Saxon: snel — active, brisk
• Yiddish: שנעל (shnel) — active, brisk
• Finnish: riuska — quick, sudden, sharp
• Romanian: iute — quick, sudden, sharp
• Finnish: napakka — quick-witted
• Finnish: reipas — harsh, severe
• Finnish: tapsi — short line to attach a hook or lure to heavier line
• German: Mundschnur — short line to attach a hook or lure to heavier line
• Māori: takā — short line to attach a hook or lure to heavier line
• Māori: taukaea — short line to attach a hook or lure to heavier line