matsaaruti

 mat-SAH-roo-tee

 Wet snow that can be used to ice a sleigh's runners. Snow defined not by what it looks like but by what it can do — a word that exists because of a specific, practical human relationship with frozen water.
Etymology
 Inuktitut (Nunavik dialect). Documented by Krupnik.
 ice/snow Indigenous Inuktitut
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