The story
- Latin · derived fromnivatus“snow-cooled”
- French · borrowed fromnévé
- English todaynévé
Borrowed from French névé, from the Franco-Provençal (Savoyard) term névi (“mass of snow”), from Latin nivatus (“snow-cooled”), from nix, nivis (“snow”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.