Etymology

snaphaan

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Dutch snaphaan
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  1. Dutch · borrowed fromsnaphaan
  2. Dutch · borrowed fromsnaphaan
  3. English todaysnaphaan

Borrowed from Dutch snaphaan.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.