The story
- Old English · inherited frombesnīwod“covered with snow”
- Middle English · inherited frombesnewed
- English todaybesnowed
From Middle English besnewed, bisnewed, from Old English besnīwod (“covered with snow”), equivalent to be- + snow + -ed. The form changed from -snew- to -snow- in conformity to snow.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.