savssat

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The situation where animals become trapped in sea ice.

Word forms

savssat savssats

Etymology

Borrowed from Eskimo-Aleut; cognate to modern Greenlandic sassat of which it may be an archaic form.

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