Astronaut - American
Cosmonaut - Russian
Spationaut - French/European
Taikonaut - Chinese
Vyomanaut - Indian
Are there any more?
Names for astronauts by countries
Ryder Taylor
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Caleb Fisher
What?
Are you making this up?
Jackson Gomez
Russian one is correct.
James Myers
Liam Morales
Taikonaut comes from Taikong (space in chinese), Spationaut comes from, well, space, and Vyomanaut comes from Vyoman (sky or space in Sanskrit)
They aren't commonly used but they exist, mainly so governments can make their space program more special.
Austin James
Indian one is not.
Isaiah Perry
I checked the other and they are also correct. But what do they all share? Greek -naut ending proving once again Greece is superior.
Kevin King
No, the French word is "astronaute".
Josiah Bailey
Ohh okay
Caleb Brooks
Nathaniel Jackson
Its not commonly used.
I have learned this today.
Justin Campbell
Porongonauta - Argentine
Josiah Miller
Because other than Astro and Cosmo they are all meme names
Some random ideas:
German - Sternaut (Stern - Star)
Israeli - Khalalonaut (khalal - space)
Japanese - Uchuunaut (uchuu - space/universe)
Jeremiah Wood
Spationaute is specifically a FRENCHMAN (or woman) who goes to space.
When we talk about Russians or Americans we also have the words "Cosmonaute" or "Astronaute"
Xavier Davis
Is it commonly used or just a meme used by ESA?
Juan Russell
Je suis plutôt certain que ce n'est pas le cas en langage courant.
Benjamin Miller
Also - Stellanaut for European/EU
Oliver Sanders
I'm not sure.
I think most people don't know the word exists and will just use "astronaute" because it feels more natural. As for myself, I always try to use the "correct" names depending on the country but then again, France/ESA didn't send that many people in space compared to Russia or America so we'd most often end up talking about astronauts or cosmonauts
Angel Price
T'es français ? Qu'est ce que tu entends par languge courant ? Parce que si tu me dis que le débile moyen ne connaît pas ce mot alors oui, mais ça n'empêche pas qu'il soit correct.
Astronaute est correct aussi d'ailleurs, même si on parle d'un français
Brayden Morgan
Captain vyom nahi yaad?
Grayson Lewis
By the way, how does the word "Vyomanaut" sound to a Hindi speaker? It sounds nice to me but any Hebrew option that comes to my mind is cringy as fuck so it might be equally cringey for you
Jackson Nguyen
Angkasawan (Spaceman)
Jayden Stewart
Auf Deutsch: Raumfahrer.
Josiah Barnes
Nahi
Camden Miller
Moon and Andromeda, long exposure
Robert Hughes
Yes it's cringy. Those two words shouldn't meet. As a standalone vyom is cool word