Description/Reason:
A thin white layer of ice forms on the ground and other surfaces, especially at night, when the temperature drops below 0° Celsius.
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Word: Frost
Category: General Noun
There's a bunch of ways to say this with chuch.
ram/po chuch – night/morning ice
yav chuch – ground ice
We don't have a unique noun for snow (it's sky ice), so I imagine frost would follow the same pattern.
Then again we also have {'eSreH} 'dew', which is its own word and is not formed by analogy to {chal bIQ} 'rain'. For years I thought 'frost' might just be {'eSreH taD} 'frozen dew', but evidently frost crystals are deposited without becoming liquid first.
I forgot we had dew.
Frost seems to be the same process as dew, excepts the water gas deposits as a solid instead of condensing as a liquid. Maybe {chuch 'eSreH} "ice dew"? It's dew made of ice instead of dew which froze. There is such a thing as frozen dew, where the droplets freeze forming ice balls. With frost is you can see the crystals of ice.
To continue along the line of qurgh's comment, perhaps chuch yub – ice shell would convey the idea well.
I would call this phenomenon 'eSreH taD.
po magh vel 'eSreH taD.
In the morning frost covered the grass.
matlheDnIS chenpa' 'eSreH taD.
We need to leave before frost forms.
QorwaghDaq 'eSreH taD qargh law' loD SenwI' qargh law'.
The frost on the window was as thick as a man's thumb. – thank you Solzhenitsyen
If I had to distinguish between frost and clear ice that formed from liquid dew, I would say chISbogh 'eSreH taD and Dembogh 'eSreH taD.
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