Yesterday I flew to Horizon (an oilsands facility above the 57th parallel) on Canadian North. Canadian North is owned by the Inuvialuit of the western Arctic and the Inuit of Nunavut. In the inflight magazine, they had listed 51 words for snow from the circumpolar languages - Inuit of Greenland and Canada, Yupik of Eastern Siberia and Aleut of Alaska.
My favourites:
My favourites:
- First falling
- Light falling
- Wet and falling
- In the air falling
- Light, deep enough for walking
- Soft for travelling
- Soft and deep where snow shoes are needed
- Crusty that breaks underfoot
- Rotten, slushy on the sea
- Best for building an igloo
- Loose, newly fallen which cannot be used as is, but can provide good building material when compacted
- That a dog eats
- Floating on water
- For building
- On clothes
- Beaten from clothes
- Much on clothes
- On boughs of tree
- Blown indoors
- Snowdrift that blocks something
In the North, it is important to be able to describe snow succinctly!
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