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[OT] In re "mun-ar", maybe you meant "monthly". Etymology of "lunar": Middle English, from Latin lunaris, from luna moon; akin to Latin lucēre to shine [0] E
by pif 3y ago
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In re "mun-ar", maybe you meant "monthly".
Etymology of "lunar": Middle English, from Latin lunaris, from luna moon; akin to Latin lucēre to shine [0]
Etymology of "moon": Middle English mone, from Old English mōna; akin to Old High German māno moon, Latin mensis month, Greek mēn month, mēnē moon [1]
You the Anglophones have this tendency to forget about the noble origins of your languages, just to reinvent it badly ;-)
[0] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lunar https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lunar
[1] https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/moon https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/moon
- vermilingua 3y agoIn Kerbal Space Program, the moon is named Mun as opposed to our Luna: lunar -> munar
- dotnet00 3y agoBy mun-ar they were just referring to the Moon equivalent in KSP being called the Mun.
- pif 3y agoEdit: thanks to commenters for the reference to KSP. I had to ask Wikipedia what it is, and the first sentence is: "Kerbal Space Program (KSP) is a space flight simulation video game developed by Mexican studio Squad". Mexicans forgetting about Latin is even worse than native English speaker doing the same!
- deepsun 3y agoThey didn't forget anything. Try playing it for 10 minutes, it's fun :)
- OkayPhysicist 3y agoIt wasn't a mistake. KSP takes place in a solar system that is similar, but not identical to our own, and the planet the the space center is on, Kerbin, has a moon, called Mun.