Eskimo | English |
apun | snow |
apingaut | first snowfall |
pokaktok | salt-like snow |
aput | spread-out snow |
miulik | sleet |
kanik | frost |
massak | snow mixed with water |
kanigruak | frost on a living surface |
auksalak | melting snow |
aniuk | snow for melting into water |
ayak | snow on clothes |
kanni | 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 | snowbank |
natigvik | snowdrift |
sillik | hard, crusty snow |
kimaugruk | 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 | light snow |
mavsa | snowdrift overhead and about to fall |
kaiyuglak | rippled surface of snow |
apuuak | snow patch |
sisuuk | avalanche |
katiksugnik | light snow deep enough for walking |
compiled by D.K. Holm, drawn from the Inupiat Eskimo Dictionary by Webster and Zibell, and from Thibert’s English-Eskimo Eskimo-English Dictionary.
lovingly pilfer’red from LibFoam:WordsForSnow