Etymology

Sedna

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Today it means: The Inuit goddess of the sea and marine animals. Full definition →

Inuktitut ᓴᓐᓇ
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The story

  1. Inuktitut · borrowed fromᓴᓐᓇ“Inuit goddess, Mother of the Sea”
  2. English todaySedna

Borrowed from Inuktitut ᓴᓐᓇ (sanna, “Inuit goddess, Mother of the Sea”). The dwarf planet and the planitia are named after the goddess.

Words from the same roots

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Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.