Another example of the same kind, the words for SNOW in Eskimo, may be given. to provide products and services, earning a small commission at no extra cost to you. In act, the dialects of these villages are disappearing and with them, some of the terms used for snow and ice. A last example: a lexicon of sea ice terminology in Nunavik (Appendix A of the collective work Siku: Knowing Our Ice, 2010) includes no fewer than 93 different words. ), but when an igloo is built, it applies precisely to snow that is rigid and maneuverable enough for erecting a semi-spherical house made of snow blocks. This is a far cry from the 52 terms or more mentioned by some. hi! New words can therefore easily be created from base terms. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Among Northern European, Asian, Alaskan, Canadian, and Greenland-area Inuits and relations that somehow deniers do not want to think are related, there may well be 100 words for snow, but we don't know for sure in the 2010s. List of the Naukanski Yupik Sea Ice terms. Read for more information. Here are just some Eskimo-Aleut snow lexemes: Hopefully, you're feeling inspired by this descriptive variety.