Question on two wintry words
Elena Gapova
e.gapova at WORLDNET.ATT.NET
Sun Jun 23 12:57:07 UTC 2002
Boroda zaindevela, ususally, and inei na volosah, I believe.
Elena Gapova
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> >-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.
>
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