snìomh

spin, wind, twist, Irish sníomhaim, Middle Irish snímaire, a spindle. sním, spinning: *snêmu-, root, snê, nê; Greek $$Gnc$$nma, yarn. See snàth further. Welsh has nyddu, nere, Cornish nethe, Breton nezaff. In the sense of "sadness", there is Early Irish sním, distress, Breton niff, chagrin.