Comment on First Satellites

• Limerance@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  More like companion.

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  • CombatWombat@feddit.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If the “pa” part of “companion” comes from path it’s basically exactly the same: “s” and “co” are both “with” and “nik” and “ion” are similar noun endings.

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    • balsoft@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      If the “pa” part of “companion” comes from path

      It doesn’t though, it comes from French compagnon/compaignon and then Latin com (with) + panis (bread). It probably originally meant “someone with whom you share bread (eat together)”.

      And actually, looking at wiktionary, Old English had a word “ġefēra” (with the same meaning) which is constructed very similarly to “спутник”: ge (‘with’, still the same prefix in german e.g. ‎Gebrüder) + fera (‘to go’/‘to fare’, e.g. in seafaring)

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  • WhyIHateTheInternet@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    More like baby mama

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    • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      More like YO mama!

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      • TachyonTele@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Ohh got em

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• CombatWombat@feddit.online ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I might translate it that way in some contexts, but if you told me Lewis and Clark were “sputniks” I’d assume you meant they got married in secret, rather than that they were explorers.

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  • SubArcticTundra@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    It’s strange they called it a ‘companion’ of any sort since it was the sole first satellite in space

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    • RustySharp@programming.dev ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      As in, a companion to the planet.

      Moons are satellites.

      Satellite: from Latin satellitem (nominative satelles) “an attendant” upon a distinguished person; “a body-guard, a courtier; an assistant”

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Especially now that I found out it involves a bacon cheese sausage somehow

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