英语词汇snow的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

snow. The word snow is first recorded in about a.d. 825 in the form of snaw. Though we have terms like red snow, green snow, black snow, and golden snow for snow tinged by algae or foreign substances, we basically make do with the one word snow to describe the crystalline white stuff. (The powder made for ski- ers is an exception to the rule.) On the other hand linguist Ben- jamin Lee Whorf once reported on an Eskimo tribe that distin- guishes 100 different types of snow—and has 100 synonyms (including tipsiq and tuva) to match them. The walrus also has many synonyms in Eskimo language “In Yupik there are forty- seven words for a walrus, depending on what he’s doing,” writes Clay Hardy of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. “There is no word for time. You tell me who’s got the proper values.” See walrus.

词汇	snow
词源	snow. The word snow is first recorded in about a.d. 825 in the form of snaw. Though we have terms like red snow, green snow, black snow, and golden snow for snow tinged by algae or foreign substances, we basically make do with the one word snow to describe the crystalline white stuff. (The powder made for ski- ers is an exception to the rule.) On the other hand linguist Ben- jamin Lee Whorf once reported on an Eskimo tribe that distin- guishes 100 different types of snow—and has 100 synonyms (including tipsiq and tuva) to match them. The walrus also has many synonyms in Eskimo language “In Yupik there are forty- seven words for a walrus, depending on what he’s doing,” writes Clay Hardy of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. “There is no word for time. You tell me who’s got the proper values.” See walrus.
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