köken: Compound of vinter (“winter”) + gata (“street”) + -n (“the”). Origin unknown. Possibly from that weather predictors tried to foretell the winter based on its shape. Attested since 1579. Cognate with Icelandic vetrarbraut.
Sjelfva vintergatan är idel verldar, hvilkas sken som knappast räcker til oss.
Milky Way (the broad band of diffuse white light, visible in the night sky) · galaxy
çekim: çoğul linnunradat · tamlayan linnunradan
köken: linnun (“bird's”, genitive) + rata (“track”), named after the purported path taken by birds to spend their winter in lintukoto in Finnic folklore.
Milky Way Galaxy (our galaxy that we inhabit) · Milky Way (a broad band of diffuse white light, visible in the night sky; our view of the galaxy that we inhabit)