Question on two wintry words
Alina Israeli
aisrael at AMERICAN.EDU
Sun Jun 23 15:38:26 UTC 2002
>-The word for that specific time when the roads turn from ice to mud.
Time or quality of substance? The period when .... is called "rasputica".
>-The word for frost that forms on a beard or on hair.
You mean real frost? That would be "inej", same as on grass in early
morning frost, the counterpart of the dew.
Alina
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