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prettygoodwordpogonip (POG-uh-nip) - (US) n., a freezing fog or icy fog, esp. one in a deep mountain valley of the western United States.
Common in the Pacific Northwest (Q: what about British Columbia?), especially the Columbia Plateau. This can be in the form of fog that remains liquid but forms rime when it condenses on surfaces that are below freezing or a supercooled fog where the liquid droplets freeze but remain in the air. The latter is especially striking, and when white settlers arrived, they'd never seen the like before and so took the Shoshoni name for it, paγɨnappɨh/pakenappeh, fog/cloud (some dictionaries claim "thunder cloud," but this looks to be an incorrect exoticization). (This word is a repeat, but I wanted it for the theme.)
And speaking of the theme, that's a wrap for words from non-Nahuatl Uto-Aztecan languages. I will continue with words from more Native American/First Nations languages -- after a break for a week of the regular mix, as the queue of those is starting to pile up.
---L.
Common in the Pacific Northwest (Q: what about British Columbia?), especially the Columbia Plateau. This can be in the form of fog that remains liquid but forms rime when it condenses on surfaces that are below freezing or a supercooled fog where the liquid droplets freeze but remain in the air. The latter is especially striking, and when white settlers arrived, they'd never seen the like before and so took the Shoshoni name for it, paγɨnappɨh/pakenappeh, fog/cloud (some dictionaries claim "thunder cloud," but this looks to be an incorrect exoticization). (This word is a repeat, but I wanted it for the theme.)
And speaking of the theme, that's a wrap for words from non-Nahuatl Uto-Aztecan languages. I will continue with words from more Native American/First Nations languages -- after a break for a week of the regular mix, as the queue of those is starting to pile up.
---L.
