Proto-Inupik: *cịųʁa-ʁ, *ciʁ-mi-
Meaning: sand 1, ice on an object 2
Russian meaning: песок 1, наледь 2
Seward Peninsula Inupik: siʁmiq 2, 'frost'
SPI Dialects: Imaq siʁmíq 2
North Alaskan Inupik: siuʁaq 'expance of fine sand'
NAI Dialects: B sioʁaq* 1, PH siʁmiq 'patch of ice put on sled runners, ice coating on boat'
Western Canadian Inupik: siuʁaq 1, siʁmiq 'earth applied to sled runners'
WCI Dialects: Cor x́ioʁaq* 1, EP siʁmiq 2 [Ow.]
Eastern Canadian Inupik: siuʁaq 1, siʁmiq 2, siʁŋut(i)- 'to freeze and be caught in new ice'
Greenlandic Inupik: siuʁaq (sioraq*) 1, siuʁaʁ- 'to strew with sand', siʁmiq 'glacier', 2, siʁmiʁ- 'to be iced over'
GRI Dialects: EG siaʁ̃aq 'grain of sand'
Comparative Eskimo Dictionary: 87, 85
