WotD: snow shovel

[muckefuck]

1. die Schneeschaufel
2. de sneeuwschep
3. la pala de nieve
4. la pala de neu
5. la pelle à neige
6. y raw eira
7. an tsluasaid shneachta
8. 눈 치는 가래
9. 雪鏟 xǔechǎn

Comments

[areia.livejournal.com]

Never knew we had a word for snow shovel in Dutch. I don't think I'd ever even seen one until I came to the US.

When we first moved here my husband had to actually demonstrate Correct Snow Shoveling Technique (as taught by the New England School of Snow Shoveling) so I wouldn't give myself a back injury shoveling our sidewalk.

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

I don't remember ever seeing one in Germany either. All those poor old women and their stumpy little brooms!

[donncha22.livejournal.com]

Creid é nó ná creid, is féidir "sneachta" a shéimhiú. Agus tá gá leis sin anseo, más fíor do na gramadóirí: sluasaid shneachta. Cé go bhfuil daoine ann a déarfadh nach ionann sluasaid a bhfuil sneachta ann agus sluasaid a úsáidtear chun sneachta a bhogadh. Is beag an difear é sin, dar liomsa. Dá mbeadh sluasaid *déanta as sneachta* agat, áfach... :-) O, agus níl an fleiscín ag teastáil: an tsluasaid.

[pne.livejournal.com]

German, also "Schneeschippe", similar to the Dutch. (And for the verb, I think I'd always say "Schnee schippen", never "Schnee schaufeln".)

[gorkabear.livejournal.com]

My grandpa uses a "regular showel" to dig out snow in his village...
But they haven't had snow in a while... Oh, well, it's been very cold lately, maybe I should call them.