> > You're right in general, but Eskimos having many words for "snow" is > something of a myth. The Eskimo languages are polysynthetic, which means, > more or less, that multiple words are combined into one > as needed. Where we might say something like "dry, drifting snow", they > would combine the three words into one. So there are lots of those compound > words--as many as you can think of, really. But > there are only a few roots that specifically reference snow. The rest are > all just descriptive modifications of "snow"; the only difference is that > English uses multiple words to describe it, but they > combine "snow" and its modifiers into one. > > That sounds very much like German. -- John Duncan Yoyo -------------------------------o)
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