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 dananu 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 yag ow Chinese/Ct don cold Chinese tung winter Chinese shang han cold Chinese song frost Croatian snjieg snow Croatian zima winter Czech ih snow Czech zima cold Danish e ow Dutch eeuw snow German Schnee snow Greek chioni ow Hindi t.han.d.h cold Icelandic snorj ow Indonesian dingan cold Irish sneachta ow Japanese tsumetai cold (to the touch) Japanese samui cold weather Japanese himo frost Kashmiri s’i_n ow Korean ch'an cold Latvian sniegs snow Latvian ziemas winter Lithuanian hiema winter Malayam tan. cold Macedonian sima winter Macedonian eg snow Norwegian ö snow Polish ieg 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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