The story
- Proto-Germanic · inherited from*snaiwahwītaz
- Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*snaiwhwīt
- Old English · inherited fromsnāwhwīt
- Middle English · inherited fromsnow whit
- English todaysnow-white
From Middle English snow whit, snowe-white, snouwite, snawhwit, from Old English snāwhwīt, from Proto-West Germanic *snaiwhwīt, from Proto-Germanic *snaiwahwītaz; equivalent to snow + white. Cognate with Dutch sneeuwwit (“snow-white”), German schneeweiß (“snow-white”), Swedish snövit (“snow-white”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.