Etymology

snowmageddon

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Today it means: A severe blizzard or series of blizzards affecting one locale. Full definition →

English snow ← Middle English snow ← Old English snāw
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  1. Proto-Indo-European*sneygʷʰ-
  2. Proto-Indo-European*snóygʷʰos
  3. Proto-Germanic*snaiwaz
  4. Proto-West Germanic*snaiw
  5. Old Englishsnāw
  6. Middle Englishsnow
  7. Englishsnow
  8. English todaySnowmageddon

From snow + -mageddon or a blend of snow + Armageddon, popularized by Barack Obama in 2010.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.