Etymology

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Today it means: A surname from Old Norse. Full definition →

Old Norse sneið
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The story

  1. Old Norse · derived fromsneið“cut off piece of land”
  2. English todaySneath

Habitational surname from Snaith in East Yorkshire, so called from Old Norse sneið (“cut off piece of land”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.