Etymology

snekke

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Today it means: A Viking fighting vessel smaller than a longship Full definition →

Danish snekke ← Old Norse snekkja ← Proto-Germanic *snakkǭ
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The story

  1. Proto-Germanic · derived from*snakkǭ
  2. Old Norse · derived fromsnekkja
  3. Danish · borrowed fromsnekke
  4. English todaysnekke

From Danish snekke, from Old Norse snekkja, probably from Proto-Germanic *snakkǭ, *snakkaz, related to Old English snacc (“swift sailing vessel”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.