{"era":"current","word":"snuff","meaning":"powdered tobacco inhaled through the nose; the residue of a burned wick","children":[{"era":"late 1300s","word":"Middle English snuffe/snoffe","meaning":"the burned part of a candle wick; later the verb sense 'to snuff'","children":[{"era":"pre-1500","word":"Dutch/Flemish snuffen","meaning":"to sniff, snuff","children":[{"era":"pre-1100","word":"Proto-Germanic *snuf-","meaning":"imitative base for sniffing or snorting","children":[],"language":"Proto-Germanic"}],"language":"Dutch/Flemish"}],"language":"Middle English"}],"language":"Modern English"}