Talking Location With … M J Robotham – VENICE
GIVEAWAY – 3 copies of Fifty Words for Snow (UK entry only)
22nd November 2020
Giveaway – 3 copies of Fifty Words for Snow by Nancy Campbell
Absolutely exquisite. This little book is a work of art. It is impossible to imagine the reader who will not love it.’ – Horatio Clare, author of The Light in the Dark: A Winter Journal
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Snow. Every language has its own words for the feather-like flakes that come from the sky. In Japanese we find Yuki-onna – a ‘snow woman’ who drifts through the frosted land. In Icelandic falls Hundslappadrifa – ‘big as a dog’s paw’. And in Maori we meet Huka-rere – ‘one of the children of rain and wind’.
From mountain tops and frozen seas to city parks and desert hills, writer and Arctic traveller Nancy Campbell digs deep into the meanings of fifty words for snow. Under her gaze, each of these linguistic snow crystals offers a whole world of myth and story.
HOW TO ENTER:
First, you must be a member of TripFiction. You can join by going to www.tripfiction.com and scroll down to the JOIN NOW tab
Second. Every language does indeed have its own word for SNOW ❆❆❆❆. All you need to do is choose a word for snow from around the world – Maybe you might choose 雪 (Mandarin) or nieve (Spanish)….or? Let’s have a polyglot giveaway!
Just do this by midnight, 5th December and the first three names out of the hat will be sent a copy each. With terrific thanks to Elliott and Thompson Books
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The winners are:
Maryc
Lectrice
Thunderbird
Yuki (Japanese)
I saw these recently, they look similar to me but I’m no expert!
snø Norwegian
snö Swedish
Lumi (Estonian). I went there in April 2019 and there was a lot of lumi!
Nieve
Lannèj (Guadeloupean creole)
sneeuw (dutch)
Theluji (Swahili)
Sneachd (Scottish Gaelic)
Schnee (German)
neige (French)
Neve is snow in Italian.
In Nigeria in yoruba yinyin is the word for both ice and snow.
sneh is Slovak for snow
雪
Yuki
Japanese word for snow which I like 🙂
nieve Spanish
Neige is snow in French
The Maori word for snow is hukarere
Borof is snow in bengali. I don’t know how to write it in bengali letters but this word is from a specific dialect and region in Bangladesh.
Lumi is snow in Finnish
The Welsh word for snow: eira ❄️
Malta call it borra
Snjór is sow in icelandic
Nieve is snow in Spanish
Neve (pronounced navy) is Italian for snow.
La neve – Italian for snow
The Irish Gaelic for snow is sneachta
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Oh, interesting… you can see all the language roots of that word!!
Hawaiian for snow is hau.
Irish Gaelic is sneachta
I have been learning Spanish online during these past lockdown months so I know that ‘nieve’ is snow.
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Good for you, I hope you feel you have learned some good things!!!
Polish word for snow is snieg(but the s has an accent over is,pronounced as cee).
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Thank you… fab to know!
French for snow is neige
niyebe in Tagalog, I think it comes from the Spanish nieve
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Now, that is interesting… I guess they don’t see much snow in the Philippines (where it is they speak Tagalog, I think??)
The Italian for snow is NEVE
Welsh for snow is eira
Yuki (雪) is the word for snow in Japan.
Ahhh, lovely, the Welsh for snow is either eira or hôd or ôd and we have words for a light snowfall or a snowstorm and regional variations too.
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Oh what lovely words!
The Hungarian word for snow is Hó.
Dinging doon sna… is Scots for a blizzard
Gujarati (indian) word for snow
બરફ
Baraph
Dutch sneeuw
hukapapa
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I wonder what country that is from?
snijeg is Croatian for snow ️
Eira, which is Welsh for snow.
Neige.
Latin for snow is nix
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Oh is it? I don’t think I ever progressed beyond declining mus, muris
Sneachda. Scottish Gaelic.
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Der Schnee in german
That’s a good one!!
Hello, I have gone for الثلج the Arabic for snow. It is pronounced ‘althalj’. Thank you for the chance to win!
La neige
La nieve – Spanish for snow
Sneeuwen = snow in Dutch
Schnee ⛄️
Schnee. I chose German because when we traced our family tree back we found out that we had German Jewish ancestors which I thought was pretty interesting. My mum’s maiden name is Lowe which is German for lion.
La neige
Xue- Chinese for snow
Śnieg in polish
Borra, Maltese for Snow, which my husband had never seen until he came to England.
Sposh! I love this one!
Flindrikin
Lumi or lunta – 2 options to start with in Finnish!
Snjeg, which is the general Russian word for snow
tuyết (Vietnamese)