ON THE ORIGIN OF SOME NAMES FOR SNOW IN THE KOMI LANGUAGE
The paper discusses the origin of 22 names for snow in the Komi language. Some names have a long-standing and reliable etymology, but most of them require additional etymology. In this regard, the article includes additional materials (primarily data from Russian folk dialects) which help to rectify known etymologies and offer other interpretations. In some cases the authors provide new explanations which have not been discussed so far in other researches.