Meaning

noun the upper part of a glacier (beyond the limit of perpetual snow) where the snow turns to ice

origin* As an English, Dutch, Swedish, and Danish surname, from a descendant of Proto-Germanic *nefô (“nephew”). * As a French surname, from the placename En Nève, from En ève (“in water”), corresponding to modern en eau. * As an Italian, Portuguese, and Galician surname, from or related to neve (“snow”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0