Pronounced: in-VAY-gull (alt: in-VEE-gull), verb
Notes: I knew part of the meaning, but not the entire meaning
Yesterday’s word
The word pogonip is “a dense winter fog containing frozen particles that is formed in deep mountain valleys of the western US”
First usage
Our word came into English in the mid-1800s
Background / Comments
This may be a first for these blog entries: our word traces back to the Shoshone language; it came from the word payinappigh (cloud) from that language. In extremely cold weather in the western United States, the fog condenses into tiny, biting ice particles. I’ve not heard of our word, but I haven’t lived in the western US where this word originated.
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