siguliaksraq

 sig-oo-lee-AK-sraq
 A patchwork layer of crystals that forms as the sea begins to freeze. The first architecture of ice on open water — not yet solid, not yet safe, a threshold between liquid and locked.
Etymology
 Iñupiaq (Wales, Alaska). One of approximately 70 terms for ice documented by Krupnik in a single Iñupiaq dialect.
 ice/snow Indigenous Iñupiaq water
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