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d0mine
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It is Luna (Луна) in Russian
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dotancohen
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And other well-accepted sci-fi terms are of Slavic origin as well. Robot, for one, and that term actually transferred to colloquial language.
ralphm
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Except that Luna in Slavic and Latin just share the same ancestor in PIE.
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