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• SNOW (in O. Eng. sndw; a common Indo-European word; cf. in Teutonic languages, Ger. Schnee, Du. sneeuw; in Slavonic snieg', Lith. snegas; Gr. vi4a, Lat. nix, nivis, whence the Romanic forms, Ital. neve, Fr. neige, &c.; Ir. and Gael. sneachd; the original

SNOW (in O. Eng. sndw; a See also:

• COMMON

common Indo-See also:

• EUROPEAN

European word; cf. in See also:

• TEUTONIC
• TEUTONIC (GERMANIC) LANGUAGES

Teutonic See also:

• LANGUAGES

languages, Ger. Schnee, Du. sneeuw; in See also:

• SLAVONIC, OLD

Slavonic snieg', Lith. snegas; Gr. vi4a, See also:

• LAT

Lat. nix, nivis, whence the Romanic forms, Ital. neve, Fr. neige, &c.; Ir. and Gael. sneachd; the See also:

• ORIGINAL

original  sense of the See also:

• ROOT (late O.E. rot, adopted from Scand., cf. Norw. and Swed. rot, Dan. rod; the true O.E. word was wyrt, plant, represented in Ger. Wurz or Wurzel; the ultimate root is the same in both words, and is seen in Lat. radix)
• ROOT, ELIHU (1845– )

root may be to moisten, cf . Skt. sneha, moisture), that See also:

• FORM (Lat. forma)

form of precipitation of See also:

• WATER

water-vapour condensed from the See also:

• ATMOSPHERE (Gr. fir µ6r, vapour; orkaipa, a sphere)

atmosphere which reaches the ground in a frozen and crystalline See also:

• CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition . See also:

• SNOW (in O. Eng. sndw; a common Indo-European word; cf. in Teutonic languages, Ger. Schnee, Du. sneeuw; in Slavonic snieg', Lith. snegas; Gr. vi4a, Lat. nix, nivis, whence the Romanic forms, Ital. neve, Fr. neige, &c.; Ir. and Gael. sneachd; the original

Snow thus occurs when the processes of condensation and fall take See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place at a temperature below 32° F . The crystals, which vary greatly in form, belong to the hexagonal See also:

• SYSTEM

system . They are formed upon a See also:

• NUCLEUS (Lat. for the kernal of a nut, nux, the stone of fruit)

nucleus, in the same way as a raindrop, and sometimes reach the ground singly, but more commonly in small coherent masses or flakes . If in its passage from the upper atmosphere snow passes through a temperature above 32° F. it reaches the ground as See also:

• SLEET (either from Nor. sletta, of the same meaning, or related to Ger. Schlosse, hailstone)

sleet or See also:

• RAIN (O.E. regn; the word is common to Teutonic languages, cf. Ger. Regen, Swed. and Dan. regn; it has been connected with Lat. rigare, to wet, Gr. 13pixeav)

rain (according to the degree of See also:

• HEAT (0. E. haktu, which like " hot," Old Eng. hat, is from the Teutonic type haita, hit, to be hot; cf. Ger. hitze, heiss; Dutch, hitte, heet, &c.)

heat encountered), and thus after a fall of rain over lowlands, the higher parts of mountains in the vicinity may be seen to have received the fall as snow . See further See also:

• CLIMATE

CLIMATE and See also:

• METEOROLOGY (Gr. JerEwpa, and hb'yos, i.e. the science of things in the air)

METEOROLOGY; and for the transformation of snow into See also:

• ICE (a word common to Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Eis)

ice under pressure, see See also:

• GLACIER
• GLACIER (adopted from the French; from glace, ice, Lat. glacies)

GLACIER .