79 Words
for Snow and Ice from West Greenlandic, an Eskimo dialect, compiled by
Stuart P. Derby
79 Words
for Snow and Ice
from West Greenlandic, an Eskimo dialect, compiled by
Stuart P. Derby
| apun: snow pukak: sugar snow apingaut: first snowfall pokaktok: salt-like snow miulik: sleet massak: snow mixed with water auksalak: melting snow aniuk: snow for melting into water ayak: snow on clothes kannik: a snowflake akillukkak: soft snow nutagak: powder snow milik: very soft snow aniu: packed snow mitailak: soft snow covering an opening in an ice floe aniuvak: a snowbank natigvik: a snowdrift sillik: hard, crusty snow kimaugruk: a snowdrift that blocks something kiksrukak: glazed snow in a thaw mauya: snow that can be broken through perksertok: drifting snow akelrorak: newly drifting snow katiksunik: a light snow mavsa: a snowdrift overhead and about to fall katiksugnik: a light snow not too deep for walking kaiyuglak: a rippled surface of snow apuuak: a snow patch sisuuk: an avalanche sullarniq: snow blown in, as through a doorway apusiniq: a snowdrift aput masannartuq: slush on the ground qaniit: snow in the air, falling nittaalaq: air thick with snow nittaalaaqqat: hard grains of snow qanipalaat: feathery clumps of falling snow apirlaat: new fallen snow pukak: snow crust qannirsuq: snowy weather pirsuq: a snowstorm qinuq: rotten snow/slush on sea imalik: wet snow falling aput: snow on the ground aputitaq: a snow patch on mountain putsinniq: wet snow on top of ice mangiggal: hard snow |
kanik: frost kanigruak: frost on a living surface siku: sea-ice sikursuit: pack-ice, or large expanses of ice in motion sikuliaq: new ice sikurluk: rotten "melting" ice floe sikuaq: thin ice iluliaq: an iceberg nilak: a piece of fresh-water ice sinnirit: lumps of ice stranded on the beach sirmiq: a glacier qaqurnak: rime/hoar-frost iluq: frost on an inner surface of a window pujurak: icy mist nataqqurnat: hail iluitsuq: a large ice floe puttaaq: an ice floe maniillat: hummocked ice/pressure ridges in pack-ice kassuq: a drifting lump of ice qaannuq: ice left adhering to shore kusugaq: an icicle imarnirsaq/ammaniq: an opening in sea-ice quppaq: a navigable fissure in sea-ice aakkarniq: rotten ice with streams forming manirak: a smooth stretch of ice tuaq: a lump of old ice frozen into new ice nutarniq: new ice formed in crack in old ice naggutit: bits of floating ice masaaraq: a small ice floe, now large enough to stand on siirsinniq: ice swelling over partially frozen river tiggunnirit: piled-up ice floes frozen together uukkarnit: calved ice, from end of glacier sinaaq: edge of the sea ice |
