v. (past sg.)
'snicked, cut lightly' (Modern English )
PGmc Ancestor
*sner-
Proposed ON Etymon (OIcel representative)
snerta, 'to touch, concern'
(ONP snerta (2) (vb.))
Other Scandinavian Reflexes
Icel snerta, Norw snerta, Sw dial snärta
OE Cognate
Phonological and morphological markers
Summary category
BB2c
Hapax legomenon, though cp. EDD s.v. snirt (v.2)
Occurrences in the Gersum Corpus
Gaw 2312
Gaw 2312 is generally parsed as past (thus TGD, GDS and most editors down to PS), but Vant reads it as an infin. (see his 2312n); on the sense see further McGee 347, who prefers the translation ‘touched’.