The English Words Sun and Sol in Your Language

Larissa   Tue Dec 20, 2005 7:31 pm GMT
in Russian the sun is called "solnce" and the star is "zvezda" ciao!
Larissa   Tue Dec 20, 2005 7:32 pm GMT
Russian: the most beautiful language in the world! :)
Guest   Fri Dec 23, 2005 1:46 pm GMT
what s dark matter
thomas   Fri Dec 23, 2005 10:20 pm GMT
sol means sun in danish
Janne   Wed Jan 10, 2007 6:32 am GMT
Aurinko is indeed a peculiar word. The rinko part could possibly be borrowed from proto-germanic and mean ring but I don't have a clue where the Au part comes from. In hebrew Aur means light and light-ring would be a logical name for the sun but then again it would be quite absurd to think ancient Finns had any contact with ancient Hebrews.
Elen   Thu Jan 11, 2007 10:50 am GMT
Helios Ήλιος(Ilios) Sun (Helium)
Selíni Σελήνη moon (Selenium) chemical elements.

in greek
Calliope   Thu Jan 11, 2007 3:22 pm GMT
"Helios Ήλιος(Ilios) Sun (Helium)
Selíni Σελήνη moon (Selenium) chemical elements.

in greek"

Quite. We should clarify though that Σελήνη is specifically Earth's moon, not what we'd call a natural moon of any planet; that would be φεγγάρι (fegari or fengari). Naturally though we often use the word φεγγάρι to refer to "our" moon. Σελήνη is what you'd call in English Selene. It's the Greek goddess of the moon (Romans called her Luna). Wikipedia says Selene is also used in English as an alternative name for Earth's moon (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selene_%28disambiguation%29).

As to the sun, in astronomy every sun is called ήλιος (ilios) or αστέρας (asteras), and our sun is also Ήλιος, like Elen said.
Joan   Thu Jan 11, 2007 4:09 pm GMT
<<The names of celestial objects are often full of beauty

La Terre
La Lune
Le Soleil
Les étoiles

Earth
The Moon
The Sun
The stars / the Suns

La Tierra
La Luna
El Sol
Las estrellas

La Terra
La Luna
Il Sole
Le Stelle

In other languages ?... >>

La Tèrra
La Luna
Lo Solelh
Las estelas
Arbër Z   Thu Jan 11, 2007 6:03 pm GMT
In albanian

a sun - Diell (dialectical Diill)
the sun - Dielli (dialectical Dilli)
(some) suns - Diej (dialectical Dij)
the suns - Diejt (dialectical Dijt)
*probably the same IE root with Dias (Zeus) and certainly the same root with eng.Day, lat.Devs etc.

Sunday - E djelë (litterally means "of the sun")
*probably from this word derives the slavic nedelja???

a star - Yll (dialectical Ill)
the star - Ylli (dialectical Illi)
(some) stars - Yj / Yje (dialectical Ij / Ije)
the stars - Yjet / Yjtë (dialectical Ijet / Ijtë)
*same IE root with stella, etoile, hellios etc.

a moon - Hënë (dialectical Hanë)
the moon - Hëna (dialectical Hana)
(some) moons - Hëna (dialectical Hana)
the moons - Hënat (dialectical Hanat)
*notice the similarity between albanian Hana and the ethruscan moon goddess Diana or Jana

Monday - E hënë (litteraly means "of the moon")
Coral   Thu Jan 11, 2007 6:27 pm GMT
in Tagalog:

Earth – Mundo/Lupa/Tierra
Sun – Araw
Moon – Buwan
Star – Bituin
Turan   Thu Jan 11, 2007 7:17 pm GMT
In Etruscan

Ushil = Sun a cryptolect of so lis?

Tiur = Moon

Apulu, Aplu = Sun god (Apollo)

Artume, Aritimi =Moon god (Artemis)

http://www.etruskisch.de/pgs/vc.htm
http://www.loggia.com/myth/etruscan.html
http://www.mysteriousetruscans.com/religion.html
Calliope   Thu Jan 11, 2007 7:22 pm GMT
"Artume, Aritimi =Moon god (Artemis)"

"the ethruscan moon goddess Diana or Jana"

Which of the two..?
Turan   Thu Jan 11, 2007 9:20 pm GMT
Diana is the roman name for Artemis.
Calliope   Thu Jan 11, 2007 10:24 pm GMT
"Diana is the roman name for Artemis."

Thank you, that's what what I thought.
Serbocroatian   Fri Jan 12, 2007 2:08 pm GMT
sunce = sun

mesec mjesec mesečina = moon





Nedelja Sunday in many slavic languages

From не + делая ("no working"), originally used to mean Sunday, the day of rest (Old Church Slavonic недѣля, "not doing")........................................