Word For "Moon"??

[Nyx]

Yes, maybe you're right, I need to get my hands on that survival guide.

But I just realised something else. If we go with Éveng leTaw (Celestial Children), then maybe "huge rock in space" could be something along the lines of (Tsawla) Tskxe leTaw ((big) celestial rock), or?

(No, I'm not that stubborn, I just thought that was a fun way to describe the moon )

[kewnya txamew'itan]

Why would they know they were lumps of rock?

The ancient Greeks thought anything that remained still in the sky was a star and anything that moved was a planet so the moon was a planet as were asteroids and comets.

[Nyx]

Good point, maybe it's a lump of cheese

I was mostly just goofing off because I didn't have much to do at school today

[Prrton]

But don't you think that since there's a short word for star, there might be a short word for moon too?

Based on visuals from the film, and info from the Activist Survival guide, there are, if anything, several words for moon.  But they will mean the moons of Polyphemus, of which Pandora itself is also one.  I doubt there would be anything that corresponds exactly to our idea of moon.

Merllte...

Txo tsaysókxìri letáẃ a lam mìsáẃ Éýwa'évengä fko syiváẃ nìtstxó ha mìÉrrta ayóél nìténg tsun ngivóp sì pive'ún nìpóngu tsatstxóti le*mun* ayóéyä ko srak?

Txo tsaysokxìri letaw a lam mìsaw Eywa'evengä fko syivaw nìtstxo ha mìErrta ayoel nìteng tsun ngivop sì pive'un nìpongu tsatstxoti le*mun* ayoeyä ko srak?

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Agreeing...

If the celestial bodies that appear in the Pandoran sky are called by individual Names, then can't we Earthings also create and decide our lunar name communally?

[Erimeyz]

If the celestial bodies that appear in the Pandoran sky are called by individual Names, then can't we Earthings also create and decide our lunar name communally?

Surely we already have, yes?  The name of Earth's moon has two proper names in English: "The Moon", and (less commonly) "Luna".

One of these is very easy to render in Na'vi.

  - Eri

[wm.annis]

Perhaps: "Txonyä tsawke"- Night's sun? althrough, it dosen't exist since Pandora IS a moon but that'l do, i guess.

At first, I was very dubious about this idea.  The moon is not much like the sun.  But then I happened to be browsing a Hupa dictionary, and sure enough, the word for "moon" is xitł'e'-wha "night-sun."

[Prrton]

Perhaps: "Txonyä tsawke"- Night's sun? althrough, it dosen't exist since Pandora IS a moon but that'l do, i guess.

At first, I was very dubious about this idea.  The moon is not much like the sun.  But then I happened to be browsing a Hupa dictionary, and sure enough, the word for "moon" is xitł'e'-wha "night-sun."

'itsawke ( letxon ) ?

[kewnya txamew'itan]

nighty daughter of the sun is a cool name, I'll use that for now until we get word from Frommer, irayo ma Prrton, ngeyä tìplltxel frayoengit 'eyk.

[Plumps]

Srane, poan seri
Slä ke poltxe san 'itesawke (letxon) sìk poan - nì'aw san 'itsawke sìk

Kxawm *prrnesawke < prrnen + sawke ? (tìng nari ne prrenesyul < prrnen + syulang)

[Prrton]

Srane, poan seri
Slä ke poltxe san 'itesawke (letxon) sìk poan - nì'aw san 'itsawke sìk

Kxawm *prrnesawke < prrnen + sawke ? (tìng nari ne prrenesyul < prrnen + syulang)

Fafya « Prrtsawke » kop zene tìtsunslu livu nìteng. Slä kxawm oeri nìtsafya « 'itsawke » prrte' nì'ul nì'it nì'aw.

[Plumps]

Tslolam sì merllte