隕石-Meteorite in Foreign Languages: ^©2007-2009            

      through time and cultural use...  NOW IN 110 LANGUAGES

            Meteorite:  "A meteor that reaches the surface of the earth without being completely vaporized."

                                  Meteorite formed by combining meteor + "ite" was first used in 1824.

                                 -- Merriam-Webster`s Dictionary

            Meteorite:  "The stony or metallic material of a meteoroid that survives passage through 

                   the atmosphere  and reaches the earth`s surface." --The American Heritage Dictionary

            Meteorite:  "1. a mass of stone or metal that has reached the earth from outer space;

                   a fallen meteoroid

                                  2. a meteoroid." 
                                  Word Origin: 1815–25  

                               -- Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2006.

*not all cultures/languages differentiate and include meteors, falling stars and shooting stars 

Egyptian: (ancient hieroglyphs)
 

bjaa-n-pt (iron meteorite); alternate spelling, bij-ni-pt

         (stone meteorite)  http://www7.pair.com/arthur/meteor/archive/archive7/April99/msg00167.html

English (mē'tē-ə-rīt'): meteorite (was first used  in English sometime between 1814-1825, a few years after the Weston meteorite fall of 1807), aerolite, aerolit, aerolith, meteor,  (in folklore: thunderstone, thunderegg, sacred stone, fall stone, stone falling from the Heavens) , omphaloi

Esperanto (Esperanto) : meteorito, aersxtono, meteorsxtono

Estonian (Eesti): meteoriit

Faeroese (Føroyskt): loftsteinur

Farsi (سنگ اسماني ، شخانه :(فارسی.
Finnish (Suomi): meteoriitti, meteoriittikivi 

Flemmish: meteoriet

French (Français): météorite (f.), aérolithe, aérolite, pierre de tonnerre (thunderstone)

Galician (Galego): aerólito

Georgian (ქართული): ძიება

German (Deutsch): der Meteorit (m.), Donnerstein (thunderstone) 

Greek (Ελληνικά): μετεωρίτης, ompholos, baitylos

Guarani (Avañe'ẽ): ararepoti, yva rat

Gujarati (ગુજરાતી):  ઉલ્કા 

Hausa (هَوُسَ): rugum (also sound of the fall of a meteorite)

Hawaiian (ʻŌlelo Hawaiʻi, Hawaiʻi): (meteor)= Akua lele, hōkū lele, koli

Hebrew (ש"ע) מטאוריט, "כוכב נופל":(עברית), barad

Hindi (हिन्दी): उल्का-पिंड, उल्काश्म, आकाशी पत्थर,

Hmong: sa

Hopi (Hopilàvayi): soobosvu (meteorite), soohubosdoga (meteor)

Hungarian (Magyar): meteorkő

Icelandic (Íslenska): lítill, loftsteinn, stjörnuhrap (meteor) 

Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia): meteorit 

Italian (Italiano): meteorite (m.), meteoriti (pl.), aereolito, aerolite, uranolite 

Japanese (日本語): 隕石, inseki, いんせき,  隕鉄 (iron meteorite) intetsu

Khmer: jemer (star excrement?)

Korean (한국어): 운석, 별똥

Kurdish (Kumanji, Kurdî , كوردی): stêrrij

Laotian (ພາສາລາວ , Pháa-Sǎa Láo): Dao Hang ("star tail"-meteor)

Latin (Latīna): lapis qui caelo decidit, lapis meteoricus and caelo delapsus

Latvian (Latviešu): meteorīts, izskatîgs  

Lithuanian (Lietuvių): meteoritas

Lushai: ṭêk (vânhnûn chat ri, sound of an explosion of a meteorite in the air) 

http://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/romadict.pl?query=meteorite&table=lorrain

Luxembourgish (Lëtzebuergesch): meteorit 

Malagasy (Malgache): Tai ny kintana (trash from the stars)

Malay (Bahasa Melayu): meteorit

Mapunzugun: lùpal

Marathi (मराठी): उल्का, (agnyutpata- a fiery meteor; a falling star)

http://dsal.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/romadict.pl?query=star&display=simple&table=molesworth 

Mongolian (монгол хэл, mongol khel): газарт унасан солир, солирын чулуулаг 

Norwegian (‪Norsk): meteoritt, meteorstein, stjerneskudd (meteor) 

 

Modern Language Association (MLA):
"meteorite", Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary. K Dictionaries Ltd. 19 Oct. 2007.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/meteorite

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Webster`s online Dictionary (very good reference for meteorite):

http://www.websters-online-dictionary.org/definition/meteorite

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Omniglot- a guide to writing systems and languages of the world:

http://www.omniglot.com/

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Austroasiatic Languages:

http://www.yourdictionary.com/languages/austasia.html

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http://www.multilingualbooks.com/onlinedicts.html

 

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Alabama (Native American) language:  http://www.ling.unt.edu/~montler/Alabama/Dictionary/index.htm 

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LOGOS: multiple online dictionaries:

http://www.logos.it/pls/dictionary/new_dictionary.gdic.sl?phrase_code=265303

http://www.logos.it/pls/dictionary/new_dictionary.gdic.st?phrase_code=265303

 

 

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Sumerian References:

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sitchin/sitchinbooks04_06.htm

 

Epics of Gilgamesh and his meteorite dream story from Sumerian cuneiform writings of about 2000 B.C.:

http://www.wsu.edu/~dee/MESO/GILG.HTM

 

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Commom English mis-spellings of "meteorite" found on internet search engines:

Yahoo:   medeorite (209); meterorite (36,200); mediorite (135)
Google: medeorite (234);  meterorite (37,300); mediorite (236)        14NOV07

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Yahoo:  medeorite (162); meterorite (35,200); mediorite (410)     13APR08

Google:  medeorite (226); meterorite (18,500); mediorite (1,340 )

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"Meteorite" Search Results:                                                         "Inseki" Search Results:

Yahoo:  4,880,000  // 4,720,000 // 9,700,000                                        6750//   6,590 //  32,200

Google: 3,320,000  // 3,440,000 // 2,450,000                                   16,700// 16,400  //  15,700

                  14NOV07         21NOV07           13APR08                                           14NOV07     21NOV07        13APR08

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"Meteorite" Image Search Results:                 "Inseki" Image Search Results:

Yahoo: 117,388 // 116,581 //  133,895                            454  //    445      //   287

Google:  89,700 //  90,400   // 109,000                       466 //     461       //    447

                   14NOV07      21NOV07   13APR08                  14NOV07     21NOV07    13APR08

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Bulgarian
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Greek
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Russian
А а Б б В в Г г Д д Е е Ё ё Ж ж З з И и Й й К к Л л М м Н н О о П п Р р СсТ т У у Ф ф Х х Ц ц Ч ч Ш ш Щ щ Ъ ъ Ы ы Ь ь Э э Ю ю Я я

Serbian
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