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neif1 (s.xii1/3)
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neif1 (s.xii1/3)

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nayf,  nef,  neff,  neife,  neyf,  nif,  nof,  noif,  noyf  (negge  GOWER Mirour 8072,  nois (l. noif?)  Waldef BB 20698 );
pl. neis  (nayves)  
  FEW:  nix 7,156a Gdf:  noif 5,514c GdfC: ∅ TL: noif 6,706 DEAF: ∅ DMF:  noif  TLF:  neige  OED: ∅ MED: ∅ DMLBS:  nix 1918c

s.

meteo.snow: 
( s.xii1/3; MS: s.xiiex )  N’i remaindrat neif ne gelee  Lapid 216.383
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  La noif fu hiduse, le freit grant qui les destreint. Mult par est malbailliz qui a descovert l'atent  Rom Chev ANTS 5819
( c.1270; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Ne viande ke seit come neif freit Nul manger ne user ne deit  Secr abernun 2070
( s.xiii3/4; MS: s.xiii3/4 )  delez les munz si est ele mult fraide pur les soveneres undees de neyfs e de pluies  Liv Regions 17
( c.1300; MS: s.xivm )  Zelge: nof  Gloss Arab 403.526
♦meteo.snowstorm: 
( a.1399; MS: a.1399 )  hidous foudres  (ed. soudres), grisyls e nayves et autres grauntz tempestes  Anon Chr1 46.33
(si) blanc cum neif
colourmeteo.as white as snow: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Blanche estoit cum neif  Rom Chev ANTS 140
( s.xiii; MS: s.xiii2 )  la coleure metez al soleil secchir et il devendra si blanc cum neif  Orn Dames 430
( s.xiiiex; MS: s.xiv2 )  Sun chief e ses cheveuz furent blaunc Cume leine blaunche e cume neif  Apoc giffard 135
plus blanche que neif
colourmeteo.whiter than snow: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Plus blanche qe n'est neif  Rom Chev ANTS 716
( s.xiiim; MS: s.xiiiex )  Les mameles avoit dures com ponme (l. poume) de ponmer (l. poumer), Plus sunt blanches que noifs qe chiet aprés feverrer  Dest Rome1 261
( s.xivin; MS: s.xivm )  par cele lavure plus blanche qe neif serray trovee  BOZ Cont 81
blanc cum neif sur gelee
gelee
blanc cum neif negee
neger1
pelote de neif
pelote

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neger1 
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