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.
the Milky Way (the galaxy which contains the Solar System) · the Milky Way (the band of diffuse light visible in the night sky; our local vision of the Milky Way galaxy)
eş: Galaktika, Putnu Ceļš
köken: The name follows the model of most European languages (cf English Milky Way), going back to Ancient Greek Γαλαξίας (Galaxías), from γάλα (gála, “milk”).
Piena Ceļa galaktika
visas pie debesīm redzamās zvaigznes ietilpst milzīgā zvaigžņu sistēmā, un to mēs parasti saucam par Galaktiku jeb Piena Ceļu