Despite also having several words for snow, such as 'snowdrift', 'snowflake', and 'flurries', the vast majority of English snow-related words all have the same root: 'snow'. Meanwhile, in Inuit, there are multiple independent terms for snow. For example, aput means 'snow on the ground', qana means 'falling snow', piqsirpoq means 'drifting snow', and qimuqsuq means 'a snowdrift'.