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névé
- /neɪˈveɪ/
- /ˈnɛveɪ/
Rhymes with -eɪ
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French névé, from the Franco-Provençal (Savoyard) term névi (“mass of snow”), from Latin nivatus (“snow-cooled”), from nix, nivis (“snow”).
noun névés
- The firn or snowfield at the head of a glacier. Then we started up a rise, and to our annoyance found ourselves amongst crevasses once more—very hard, smooth névé between high ridges at the edge of crevasses, and therefore very difficult to get foothold to pull the sledges.
- Young, granular snow on a glacier, which has been partially melted and refrozen since deposition, but has not yet turned into firn by surviving a full season of ablation. Haast's 1864 paper does not explain exactly why the glaciers should have come and gone as they did, but it appears that he believed that the onset of glaciation was due to the formation of his "high, plateau-like" range of mountains, acting as a moisture trap, with consequent névé accumulation on a
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Talk about this word "névé." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/n%C3%A9v%C3%A9. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. névé. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/n%C3%A9v%C3%A9 "névé." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/n%C3%A9v%C3%A9.Cite this
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