Etymology

As snart (adv.); cp. OIcel snarr ‘hard-twisted (rope); swift, keen; soon’, neut./adv. snar-t, < PGmc *snarxa-.

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

cp. snyrian(v.) ‘to hasten, hurry’ 

Phonological and morphological markers

<p>ON adjectival (adverbial) <em>-t</em></p>

Summary category

A2*c

Attestation

In addition to WA, MED records the adj. from a handful of  N and E surnames in documentary sources; snart (adv.) only occurs in Gaw.

Occurrences in the Gersum Corpus

WA 3633

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