5.3: Focal Vocabularies
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Biltu | Shy and wild, usually refers to females |
Doalli | Apt to resist |
Goaisu | Male reindeer who keeps apart all summer and is very fat when autumn comes |
Já?as | Obstinate, difficult to lead |
Láiddas | Easy to lead by a rope or rein |
Lojat | Very tractable driving-reindeer |
Lojáš | Very tame female reindeer |
Láiddot | Reindeer which is very láiddas |
Moggaraš | Female reindeer who slips the lasso over head in order to avoid being caught |
Njirru | Female reindeer which is very unmanageable and difficult to hold when tied |
Ravdaboazu | Reindeer which keeps itself to the edge of the herd |
Sarat | Smallish male reindeer which chases a female out of the herd in order to mate with it |
Šlohtur | Reindeer which hardly lifts its feet |
Stoalut | Reindeer which is no longer afraid of the dog |
Čahki | Hard lump of snow; hard snowball |
Geardni | Thin crust of snow |
Gska-geardi | Layer of crust |
Gaska-skárta | Hard layer of crust |
Goahpálat | The kind of snowstorm in which the snow falls thickly and sticks to things |
Guoldu | A cloud of snow which blows up from the ground when there is a hard frost without very much wind |
Luotkku | Loose snow |
Moarri | Brittle crust of snow; thin crust of ice |
Njáhcu | Thaw |
Ruokna | Thin hard crust of ice on snow |
Seanaš | Granular snow at the bottom of the layer of snow |
Skárta | Thin layer of snow frozen on to the ground |
Skáva | Very thin layer of frozen snow |
Skávvi | Crust of ice on snow, formed in the evening after the sun has thawed the top of the snow during the day |
Soavli | Very wet, slushy snow, snow-slush |
Skoavdi | Empty space between snow and the ground |
Vahca | Loose snow, especially new snow on the top of a layer of older snow or on a road with snow on it |