adv.
'bitterly'
(Modern English )cp. OIcel snarr ‘hard-twisted (rope); swift, keen; soon’, neut./adv. snar-t, < PGmc *snarxa-; cp. MLG snar, MDu snare, OHG snaraha ‘nimble, skilful’, and the verb OE snyrian ‘to hasten, hurry’ < *snarxō(j)an-. Final -t of the ME word likely reflects ON inflexional -t, but the existence of extensions of the PGmc. *sner- root with -t (thus OIcel snerta ‘to touch, concern’, pret. sg. snart) leaves some room for doubt, although there is no evidence for *snart- as an adj. stem.
PGmc Ancestor
*snarxa-
Proposed ON Etymon (OIcel representative)
snarr ‘hard-twisted (rope); swift, keen; soon’
(ONP snarr (adj.))
Other Scandinavian Reflexes
Far snarur, Icel snar, runic Norw (n. pl) snAreʀ, Norw snar, Dan snar, Sw snar
OE Cognate
snyrian (v.) ‘to hasten, hurry’
Phonological and morphological markers
<p>ON adjectival (adverbial) <em>-t</em></p>
Summary category
A2*c
Only Gaw 2003 as an adv. MED records the adj. from WA 3633, and a handful of N and E surnames in documentary sources.
Occurrences in the Gersum Corpus
Gaw 2003