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| From | Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | sci.physics.relativity |
| Subject | Re: Einstein's relativity is philosophy, not physics |
| Date | 2016-03-01 08:16 +0100 |
| Organization | Good company |
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Dne 01/03/2016 v 07:56 Dorothy J Heydt napsal(a):
>> Poutnik ( the Czech word for a wanderer )
>
> Cognate with Russian Sputnik? Sounds as if it might be, but I've
> learned to beware of false cognates.
Yes, both words have the same origin of old Slavic root "put",
with meaning of path, way, route. The prefix s- means
"somebody who travels with you", a co-traveller.
Sputnik is such an Earth co-traveller through the Universe.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=sputnik
QUOTE
...... from Russian sputnik "satellite,"
literally "traveling companion" (in this use short for sputnik zemlyi,
"traveling companion of the Earth") from Old Church Slavonic supotiniku,
from Russian so-, s- "with, together" + put' "path, way," from Old
Church Slavonic poti, from PIE *pent- "to tread, go" (see find (v.)) +
agent suffix -nik.
The electrifying impact of the launch on the West can be gauged by
the number of new formations in -nik around this time (the suffix had
been present in a Yiddish context for at least a decade before); Laika,
the stray dog launched aboard Sputnik 2 (Nov. 2, 1957), which was dubbed
muttnik in the "Detroit Free Press," etc. The rival U.S. satellite which
failed to reach orbit in 1957 (because the Vanguard rocket blew up on
the launch pad) derided as a kaputnik (in the "Daytona Beach Morning
Journal"), a dudnik ("Christian Science Monitor"), a flopnik
("Youngstown Vindicator," "New York Times"), a pffftnik ("National
Review"), and a stayputnik ("Vancouver Sun").
--
Poutnik ( the Czech word for a wanderer )
Knowledge makes great men humble, but small men arrogant.
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Einstein's relativity is philosophy, not physics The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2016-02-29 22:16 -0800
Re: Einstein's relativity is philosophy, not physics Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2016-03-01 07:49 +0100
Re: Einstein's relativity is philosophy, not physics djheydt@kithrup.com (Dorothy J Heydt) - 2016-03-01 06:56 +0000
Re: Einstein's relativity is philosophy, not physics Poutnik <poutnik4nntp@gmail.com> - 2016-03-01 08:16 +0100
Re: Einstein's relativity is philosophy, not physics "Bast" <fakename@nomail.invalid> - 2016-03-01 07:52 -0500
Re: Einstein's relativity is philosophy, not physics Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-03-01 08:34 -0600
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