An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Schneide

by Friedrich Kluge

Schneide, f., ‘(cutting) edge, snare, gin,’ from MidHG. snîde, f., ‘edge of a sword or a knife’; allied to schneiden, from MidHG. snîden, OHG. snîdan, ‘to cut, carve, make (clothes)’; comp. Goth. sneiþan, ‘to cut, reap,’ OIc. snìða, AS. snîþan (obsolete at the beginning of the MidE. period), Du. snijden, OSax. snîthan. A common Teut. vb. from the root snī̆þ (snī̆d), ‘to cut,’ which has to correspondences in the other Aryan languages. See schnitzen. —