The myth can be traced back to anthropologist, Franz Boas. Inuit form of Jessica. First of all, it should be noted that there is no single language known as "Eskimo" (or Eskimoan or even Eskimo-ese). The belief that the Inuit have dozens of different words for snow has become a widely known piece of linguistic trivia. Browse our 37 native Alaskan boy names and meanings: Traditionally speaking, the Inuit people of Alaska, Greenland, and Canada dont view gender in the same way as we typically do in the English-speaking world. Patty Inglish MS (author) from USA and Asgardia, the First Space Nation on November 25, 2010: Yes, why do people not check, charkamman -- and sometimes these emails contain computer viruses and worms that work silently as people spread the spam across the Internet. "These people need to know whether ice is fit to walk on or whether you will sink through it," says linguist Willem de Reuse at the University of North Texas. Look it up now! - sn uu dng giidang? tsikut = large broken-up masses of ice blocks. Native Knowledge of the Narwhal | Smithsonian Ocean Susan Hazelton from Northern New York on November 26, 2010: Patty, I believe we are all plagued with these annoyingemails - as for me I may give them a glance then delete them. Three distinct word roots with the meaning "snow" are reconstructed for the Proto-Eskimo language: *qani 'falling snow',[18] *aniu 'fallen snow',[19] and *apun 'snow on the ground'. The moon is his partially burned out torch that he . - waqaa Related languages in Iceland, Northern Europe, Siberia, etc. See more. But why such snowy exuberance? As I was reading, your hub made me think of Sue Harrison's books. However, the latest studies show that Boas was, actually, correct. They are polysynthetic, creating meaning by adding many different parts onto a stem. President of the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, Natan Obed called upon the CFL to stop using the word 'Eskimo.' Here he speaks with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau as they overlook Iqaluit, Nunavut in .