matsaaruti
mat-SAH-roo-tee
Wet snow that can be used to ice a sleigh's runners. Snow defined not by what it looks like but by what it can do.
Etymology
Inuktitut (Nunavik dialect). Documented by Igor Krupnik, an anthropologist and Arctic ethnologist with the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.
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