Re: New meaning of the term "Sputnik"

[eugeny gladkih <john@...>]

On 24.07.2012 3:10, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 12:26 PM, Michael Shalayeff <mickey@lucifier.net> wrote:
> > 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
> >
> > cu
> > --
> >      paranoic mickey      (my employers have changed but, the name has remained)
>
> My recollection is that the English translation of Sputnik is "fellow
> traveler" - it had nothing to do with "satellites", natural or
> artificial. ;-)

that's pretty right.