Snyðian

Selon le Dictionnaire Anglo-Saxon :

snyðian

to go as a dog with its nose to the ground (?):--Neb is mín niþerweard . . . ic snyþige forð (it is a plough that speaks), Exon. Th. 403, 12; Rä. 22, 6. [Icel. snyðja to go sniffing like a dog, but applied also to the going of ships, and other things.] -snyðian,snyðian