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)
Milky Way (the Milky Way Galaxy, the galaxy in which Earth is located)
köken: From שְׁבִיל (sh'víl, “way”) + הֶ־ (he, “the”) + חָלָב (khaláv, “milk”); ultimately derived from a calque of Latin Via Lactea.
Etimoloji
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.