When you visit the site, Dotdash Meredith and its partners may store or retrieve information on your browser, mostly in the form of cookies. Interesting reference to the language of the amazing people. business names, or pet names), this page might help you come up with ideas. Words for ice and snowfrom Labradoran Inuit ice - sikko bare ice - tingenek snow (in general) - aput snow (like salt) - pukak soft deep snow - mauja snowdrift - tipvigut watery snow - mangokpok soft snow - massak snow filled with water - massalerauvok soft snow - akkilokipok Words for snow and ice from West Greenlandic inuit Inuit baby names evoke power and poignance the majesty of Alaska, Canada, and Greenland. Many Inuit no longer refer to it as their name due to a lack of a proper name. tsikut = large broken-up masses of ice blocks. hello (good to Arctic and Subarctic Indigenous Peoples in Alaska. It means lover of horses. [3] Igor Krupnik, an anthropologist at the Smithsonian Arctic Studies Center in Washington, supports Boas's work but notes that Boas was careful to include only words representing meaningful distinctions. The first reference[13] to Inuit having multiple words for snow is in the introduction to Handbook of American Indian languages (1911) by linguist and anthropologist Franz Boas. So it's the sort of list that would be useful for helping you build a inuit vocabulary list, or just a general inuit word list for whatever purpose, but it's not necessarily going to be useful if you're looking for words that mean the same thing as inuit (though it still might be handy for that). We must check all the dialects of Inuit and related languages around the top of the Earth, before deciding that there are only a dozen words for snow, ice, or both. But Igor Krupnik, an anthropologist at the Arctic Studies Center of the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C, has concluded that Boas only counted words that were different enough to be distinguished on their own, and that he did so with care. courtesy of the Alaska Native Language Center. - cangacit? Copyright 2011 - 2023 MomJunction Private Limited. welcome my friend - shijyaa, Hn Athabascan Word. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Inuit form of Jessica. Indian mounds Alabama Igloos or iglu, also known as aputiak, are . It is however not meaningful to say that people who see snow or grass as often but use another language have less words to describe it if they add the same kind of descriptive information as separate words instead of as "glued-on" (. It all started in the late 19th century when anthropologist and linguist Franz Boas spent time in the icy wilds of Baffin Island in northern Canada studying the local Inuit communities. It may occur with intensifying extratropical cyclones. Stuff and nonsense reigns! thank you - mahsi'