SNO(W) TSeeNaH Tsadi-Noon-Hey TSEE-nah______צנה______[TS-N-H à SN] ROOTS: The Indo-European (IE) "root" of SNOW is sneigwh (snow, to snow). Old English snaw has lost the G or H guttural of the Edenic etymon, which the IE "root" is attempting to depict in their reconstruction.
The IE "root" also tries to have an N-W, to allow for NEVE, NIVAL, NIVEOUS and N-V "snow" words which do not belong here.
As seen in the global derivatives below, SNOW is not about white precipitation, but about cold. The Biblical citation for צנה TSeeNaH puts this ice-cold equation on ice: "Like the coldness of snow" - Proverbs 25:13.
צנה TSeeNaH is sharply relevant to צן TSaiN (thorn, barb) of the "TINE" entry. The sensation of cold is sharp and piercing. Switching to Tsadi-Mem, an antidote for cold is the warm wool of צמר TSeMeR (Leviticus 13:47).
Fricative-nasal words of coldness fromצנה TSeeNaH (cold) dominate the chart below; Semitic languages prefer the dental (D,T) side of צ Tsadi.
Akkadian danānu coolness, cold (of snow); harshness (cold, weather) Assyrian dannatu cold weather dunnu severity of cold weather Sumerian enten winter ten cold, coolness [Sumerian is Middle-Eastern, but not Semitic. The Chinese below, Mandarin, Cantonese (Ct), the Vietnamese (reversed), much of the Dravidian and the Indonesian also favor dental-nasal. The data above, and the Dravidian (India) and Amerind below is from Fernando Aedo.] BRANCHES: from צנה TSeeNaH (cold) [RW, IM]
Armenian tsmer winter
Bulgarian snyag snow Chinese/Ct don cold Chinese tung winter Chinese shang han cold Chinese song frost Croatian snjieg snow Croatian zima winter Czech snih snow Czech zima cold Danish sne snow Dutch sneeuw snow German Schnee snow Greek chioni snow Hindi t.han.d.h cold Icelandic snorj snow Indonesian dingan cold Irish sneachta snow Japanese tsumetai cold (to the touch) Japanese samui cold weather Japanese shimo frost Kashmiri s’i_n snow Korean ch'an cold Latvian sniegs snow Latvian ziemas winter Lithuanian shiema winter Malayam tan. cold Macedonian sima winter Macedonian sneg snow Norwegian snö snow Polish snieg snow Polish zimny cold, winter Prakrit sin.e_ha frost, snow Russian snieg snow Russian zima winter Serbian zima winter Swedish snö snow Slovakian sneh snow Tamil tan. cold, cool Telugu canni_l.l.u cold weather Ukrainian zima winter Viet. (ß) tam cool
Fernando Aedo's Amerind cognates from צנה TSiNaH Strong # 6793 From Comparative Studies In Amerindian Languages, Esther Matteson (et. al.), following the Greenberg - Ruhlen's classification of New Would (Amerind) languages. Language isolates of Equatorial Colombia: - *-si-ni-na, sisna (CaM), tishini-na (Mot) *tisini-na (Pre Mot, Chib), *s-ní (PS) cold
- Almosah: kissin to freeze (Algonquin (Lahontan 1703)) <--; sa:won be cold (Algic: Yurok).
- Andean: shininiu to get cold, to be cold; shiniquia cold; (Arabela); sanök-li cold (Capanahua); se ne cold (Zaparo)
- Cahuapanan: të’na’ cold (Chayahuita).
- Chibchan: Lenca: c’ana cold (Chilanga); sani freeze (Similaton); Misumalpan: sang cold weather (Sumu); sainista be cold (Paya); Talamanca: sen cold (Terraba).
- Equatorial: senet cold weather, cold, ice; senahte’t- to be cold, get cold (Yanesha Amuesha).
- Keresiouan: sne¯ cold (Sioux (Say 1823)); sani cold (Tutelo (Hale 1883)); sní to be cold (Assiniboine); sní to be cold, cool (Dakota); sniyá to be chilly (weather) (Dakota).
- Macro-Carib: tsíñaave tremble of cold (Bora); i:sana n. cold (Surinam); ti-sano-le cold (Kaliana); tu-sano-ri cold (Cariniaco); sanora cold (Yagua Marcoy); sanehe rainy season (Fejos).
- Paezan: Chimu: can cold (Eten).
- Penutian: Mayan: tzamay cold thing (Huastec); tz^n n. cold (Ch’ol); tzuan cold (Ch’ol); tz^n’an to cool (Ch’ol); chun snow, hail (Uspantec); cham ice (Huastec).
More frigidity at “SANGFROID.” [edenics.net]
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