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You also need to take "word" with a grain of salt, since we're dealing with a highly polysynthetic language. Many of those "words" would be substantial chunks o
by stan_rogers 5y ago
You also need to take "word" with a grain of salt, since we're dealing with a highly polysynthetic language. Many of those "words" would be substantial chunks of sentences to speakers of most other languages, with elements we'd think of as "words" being reduced to, say, a vowel or a vowel change in one of the other "word" elements. Language is really, really neat.
- yorwba 5y agoYeah, the dictionary https://archive.org/details/kinikmisigumqan00weya https://archive.org/details/kinikmisigumqan00weya lists many terms that are obviously related: Sigu: Ocean pack ice, also a generic term that refers to all sea ice, including shore-fast ice Siguliaq: Young ice, gray or gray-white in color Siguliaksraq: “That which will become young ice”, grease ice Also, they're not all terms for ice, they might just be related to life on the ice: Arjuun: Paddle or oar; can be used to listen for sea mammal vocalizations underwater