Re: New meaning of the term "Sputnik"

[Michael Shalayeff <mickey@...>]

On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 12:03:23PM -0700, Dimiter 'malkia' Stanev wrote:
> Bwt, sputnik means satellite in russian.
> 
> (I'm bulgarian, but know some russian). Definitely there are plenty
> of russian folks here, so they can confirm.

the root "put" means a road or a path.
the prefix 's' is short for "so" as in latin "co-"
(russian kaputnik... oj ;)
and suffix "nik" brings the meaning to as the doer or
the knower of the roading. thus a traveller.
since satelites like the moon and those of other planets
were already called "sputnik" so it was reused for
an artificial satelite as well.

> On 7/23/2012 10:43 AM, Jeff Pohlmeyer wrote:
> >This might be considered off-topic, but maybe it is worth mentioning:
> >
> >   http://tinyurl.com/sputnik-dell

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