Etymology

Snaefell

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Today it means: A mountain, the highest in the Isle of Man (OS grid ref SC3988). Full definition →

Old Norse snær
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The story

  1. Old Norse · derived fromsnær“snow”
  2. English todaySnaefell

From Old Norse snær (“snow”) + fjall (“mountain”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.