DCHP-1 Online
mowya [< Algonk.: Cree mowja] North 
n. wet snow.
- 1939 (1951) There is the soft mowya that clogs the runners of your sledge and wears down men and dogs.
- 1942 . . . he was forced to turn back on account of the mowja (deep snow).
- 1939 (1951) There is the soft mowya that clogs the runners of your sledge and wears down men and dogs.