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In a popular 1940 article on the subject, Whorf referred to Eskimo languages having several words for snow: We [English speakers] have the same word for falling snow, snow on the ground, snow hard packed like ice, slushy snow, wind-driven snow – whatever the situation may be. To an Eskimo, this all-inclusive word would be almost unthinkable....
Eskimo words for snow; The wrong type of snow; Notable snow events. 2007 Siberian orange snow; Alberta clipper; List of blizzards;
Some sources say that "Siberia" originates from the Siberian Tatar word for 'sleeping land' (Sib-ir), but this discourse does not correspond to the actual Siberian Tatar language. [12] Mongolist György Kara posits that the toponym Siberia is derived from a Mongolic word sibir, cognate with modern Buryat sheber 'dense forest'. [13]
Snow goggles (Inuktitut: ilgaak or iggaak, syllabics: ᐃᓪᒑᒃ or ᐃᒡᒑᒃ; [1] Central Yupik: nigaugek, nigauget) are a type of eyewear traditionally used by the Inuit and the Yupik peoples of the Arctic to prevent snow blindness.
A drone flies low over a snow-covered shipyard in Russia's Far East, where workers toil in subzero temperatures to maintain the hulking vessels during the bitter Siberian winter. The process of ...
The above peculiarities of this (already extinct) Eskimo language amounted to mutual unintelligibility even with its nearest language relatives: [106] in the past, Sirenik Eskimos had to use the unrelated Chukchi language as a lingua franca for communicating with Siberian Yupik. [104] Many words are formed from entirely different roots from in ...
Siberian husky in snow. There are many reasons to love Siberian Huskies. They are intelligent and athletic dogs who need an extraordinary amount of exercise every day. They can pull a sled for 100 ...
The Inuit languages can form very long words by adding more and more descriptive affixes to words. Those affixes may modify the syntactic and semantic properties of the base word, or may add qualifiers to it in much the same way that English uses adjectives or prepositional phrases to qualify nouns (e.g. "falling snow", "blowing snow", "snow on ...