[Fictionary] Anyone see any sastrugi?

[Jean-Joseph Cote]

I've seen this phenomenon at the top of a ski area in Colorado a few 
years ago, I think it was Copper, or if not, then Winter Park. I didn't 
look the way I had pictured, but the friends I was with said something 
like, "Oh, there's that weird snow thing, can't remember the name, 
um...", and I asked "Sastruga?", and they replied, "That's it!".

Jean-Joseph

On 12/23/2022 3:13 PM, Pierre Abbat wrote:
> There is no snow here, just very cold, but other parts of the country have
> snow, so I thought there might be some sastrugi. If so, post pics!
>
> Wiktionary also has the form "sastrugus", which is wrong. It's first-
> declension, so it would make more sense to make a plural "sastrugae" than a
> singular "sastrugus". The first declensions of Russian, Latin, and Greek all
> correspond, even having a few masculine nouns for professions (e.g. ραπτης,
> судья, athleta).
>
> Pierre

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