snúa

From Old Norse snúa, from Proto-Germanic *snōwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sneh₁- (“to wind; twist; braid; plait”).

snúa (ri-verb, third-person singular past indicative sneri or snéri, supine snúið)

1. (with dative) to turn
2. (with dative) to face

   Hvor hliðin snýr niður?

   Which side faces downwards?

3. (with dative, informal) to translate, to render
4. (with dative) to change somebody's mind, to convert somebody
5. (with dative) to make someone run errands
6. (with accusative) to twine, to twist

• One of the four ri-verbs in Icelandic, the other being núa (“to rub, massage; to wipe”), gróa (“to grow; to heal”) and róa (“to row”).
• As with the other ri-verbs, the past tense sneri (“I turned”) was originally pronounced with an e sound but is today pronounced with a é sound. There are therefore two spelling variants used: sneri and snéri. The Icelandic Ministry of Education considers both variants to be equally correct,[1] but many speakers consider the original sneri spelling to be the more correct one.

• (turn): venda
• (face): vísa
• (translate): þýða, snara, útleggja
• (change somebody's mind): telja hughvarf
• (make someone run errands): láta þjóna sér
• (twist): flétta

From Proto-Germanic *snōwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sneh₁- (“to wind; twist; braid; plait”).

snúa

1. to turn (around), twist

• Icelandic: snúa
• Faroese: snurra
• Norwegian:
  • Norwegian Bokmål: snu
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: snu
• Swedish: snurra, sno
• Danish: snurre