> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <tgpedersen@...>
> To: <Nostratica@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, January 13, 2003 1:23 PM
> Subject: [Nostratica] Snow and ice
>
>
> >
> > Now it can be told!
> > The editor of the Danish-Greenlandic dictionary stated on TV
> > yesterday that Greenlandic has 19 words for snow and 33 for ice.
> >
> > Torsten
> >
> >

--- In Nostratica@yahoogroups.com, Piotr Gasiorowski
<piotr.gasiorowski@...> wrote:

> Ever heard of The Great Eskimo Snow Hoax?
>
> http://www.ecst.csuchico.edu/~atman/Misc/eskimo-snow-words.html
>
> ... plus some light linguistic entertainment:
>
> http://www.mendosa.com/snow.html
>
>
> Piotr
>
>

For what it's worth, what I saw on the screen (they flashed them on
for a few seconds), the words did not seem to be derived from each
other.

Torsten