40 words to call snow in Finnish

As Natalia told us, curiously in Finnish there is no verb to "snow". They call it "sataa lunta": it rains snow.

The list of the more than 40 words for Finnish snow that gn0sis puts is the following.

Frosty precipitation that is still falling

1.- lumi: snow
2.- pyry: rain of snow
3.- myräkkä: snow storm
4.- rae: hail
5.- räntä: sleet
6.- tuisku: rain of snow with strong wind
7.- laviini: small avalanche

Frosty rainfall mixed with water



8.- hyhmä: snow floating on the water
9.- loska: very wet snow; snow, water and mud mixed together
10.- sohjo: sleet; water and snow mixed

Frosty precipitation over large bodies of water

11.- ahto: broken ice and then frozen again
12.- ahtauma: drifting ice formation
13.- jää: ice
14.- Kide: crystalline ice (ice crystals)
15.- kohva: gray ice formed on wet snow
16.- paanne: ice in layers (normally the waves collide with the ice and freeze just above)
17.- Rail: pressure peak on ice
18.- röpelö: ice that is not smooth, uneven
19.- tökkö: ice with frost on top



A word for snow: röpelö
This type of ice that is not smooth, on the Joensuu lake, would be röpelö

Cold precipitation on the ground

20.- iljanne: a thin layer of snow on the ice
21.- hanki: a uniform layer of snow on the ground, especially if it is enough to ski
22.- huurre: frost; granular frost (like what's in your freezer, which is 25 degrees warmer than Finland in winter)
23.- härmä: frost
24.- kinos: diversion of the snow, a loose pile of snow, especially if it was formed by the action of the wind
25.- kaljama: a thick layer of ice on the ground, lethal in spring
26.- kuura: the frost; frozen dew
27.- grandchildren: a pillar of long, hard snow (may be frozen)
28.- nuoska: snow with which balls can be made, usually formed with fine snow that has melted a little
29.- Polanne: a hard layer of compact snow
30.- tykky: large pieces of snow, especially those that form on snowy trees
31.- viti: very thin snow, freshly fallen



Snow words in Eskimo: hanki

Cold precipitations that have suffered human or animal intervention

32.- avanto: a hole in the ice
33.- Jotos: reindeer tracks in the snow
34.- Latu: a snow road to ski
35.- Rannio: a step for reindeer in deep snow

verbs for walking in the snow

36.- nirskua
37.- narskua
38.- Kirskua
39.- nitistä
40.- narista

Obviously, although there are in total more than 40 words to describe the icy precipitations and what happens with them, they are not very used. You will not find a Finn who uses these words among the most used in Finnish, as many Spaniards do not use most of the words that exist in Spanish, but a small part.

In the original list there are some more, which come from Finnish dialects and regional words from Lapland (for example "mora", which means "not compact snow on which you can not ski"), Tampere, etc. 


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