Re: More on dump etc.

--- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "tgpedersen" <tgpedersen@...> wrote:

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> Why do we end up in the water all the time?
> Within this, IE, context, the UEW's lumping "inside" and "snowstorm"
> into one root makes sense
> http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/63789
> otherwise it doesn't.
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> Torsten
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I don't think snow has a direct connection here. Tie ummessa, just means road in closure/enclosedness. It could just as well be because of a mud slide, but obviously snow is way more common. From the same stem, ummetus - constipation, no snow involved.

Umpilumi - snow so thick you can hardly see in front of you, or enclosing snow.

umpihanki - pristine (complete) snow bank.

The snow idea comes not from umpi, but the second part of the compound.

Peter P