Old English · verb
snæcan
- Part of speech
- verb
Meaning
to sneak
Etymology
Either from Proto-West Germanic *snākijan, from *snākō (“person or thing that crawls, creeps”) + *-jan, or *snaikijan, causative to *snīkan (“to crawl, creep”), whence snīcan.
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