Any Latin experts or linguists around?

[beloitpiper]

and the Esquimoux have how many words for "snow"?

not any more than English as a language does....
http://www.mendosa.com/snow.html

I hate to hijack, but that link is pretty shoddy. They begin the text by claiming that "Eskimo" means "raw-meat eaters" and is a derogatory term for Inuit, while it really means "snowshoe netters" and is an umbrella term for both the Inuit and Yupik peoples.

And if you look at the link, he claims that English has as many words for "snow" as the Eskimos have, but with the list he provides, this is clearly not true. Eskimo can describe many different snows with one word, while English requires (sometimes) a dozen words to describe the same snow.