Etymograph

English

snowmachine

From snow + machine.

A compound of snow + machine

Proto-Indo-European *sneygʷʰ- ‘to snow’

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Proto-Germanic *snaiwaz

Proto-West Germanic *snaiw

Old English snāw

Middle English snaw ‘snow’

English snow

Doric Greek μᾱχᾰνᾱ́ ‘machine, contrivance (Doric)’

Latin māchina ‘a machine, contrivance’

Middle French machine ‘machine’

English machine

Today it means

noun A machine that makes snow, such as a snowgun

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “snowmachine”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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