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Most words in a language originate with phonemes to express some semantic content. The words snow in historical linguistics differ in opinion as to its origin in geographical regions where snow was visualized or the attributes which were universal.
The word snow has attributes of color, form etc borrowed from either Anglo saxon origin of the English language or other languages such as sanskrit..
See the link for a summary of the origin of the word. The word can be traced back to Sanskrit roots. In a broader sense, words are mysterious, because they are all metaphorical in nature. That is, they are things that represent something else. This might lead you into some interesting reading on linguistics, which is a really huge and fascinating topic.
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What is the collective noun for snow?
Collective nouns for snow are a blanket of snow, a bank of snow, or a drift of snow.
What is the collective noun for a lot of snow starting with d?
Collective nouns for snow are a blanket of snow, a bank of snow, or a drift of snow.
A white puddle is simile for?
snow
What is the inverse to the statement If I do my homework then it will snow?
I honestly mathematily don't really know
Is snow a noun?
Yes, the word 'snow' is a verb and a noun.The noun 'snow' is a word for water vapor frozen into ice crystals that falls from the atmosphere in the form of flakes; a word for quantities of these crystals that cover the ground or other objects; a word for something resembling these crystals or quantities of these crystals; a word for a thing.Example uses:The weather report said it will snow tonight. (verb)We're required to keep the snow removed from the sidewalk. (noun)
What is an igloo built of?
and igloo is made of two elemets frozen snow that we call ice and unfrozen snow what we call snow
What do you call an outline of a man in a snow?
snow angel is the common term
What if lighting and thunder were caused in a snow storm what do you call that?
It's called thunder snow.
In which titles of the Call of Duty game is snow a weapon camouflage?
The only Call of Duty game to have a weapon camouflage labeled snow is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3. Other games had snow type camouflage but called it by a different name.
Why did they call it snow?
because they wanted tooo?!
Who do you call the snow house of the eskimos?
igloo
What do you call rain snow and hail?
precipitation
What do you call messy wet snow?
slush
What do you call a mixture of rain snow?
Sleet
What do you call fresh snow on a glacier?
ice
Why do they call Himalayas named abode of snow?
No
What do you call snow when it mixes with dirt?
Sludge
