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Interesting word 'Galaxy'.
My neighbour has been at me again.
Galaxy is made up of 2 words.
'Ga' and 'Lactic'
'Ga' is a word meaning to pass through, to travel, or a road.
'Lactic' means to be fed the milk of Gods or something like that. (he waffled on about some woman that breast fed the Gods in Mythology)
But anyway, the history of the word 'Galaxy' means 'Milky Way'.
Our Galaxy! The others were known as Heavenly Bodies, and I can't remember the ancient words he used. But apparently, someone started calling them all 'Galaxy' (Milky Way) and it has stuck ever since.
So, in actual translation, they are all being called 'Milky Way'.
Just thought I would bore you for a while. (well, he does it to me, I'm just passing it on. Don't you hate people who study linguistics).
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