There is another name for the planet Earth in the Kristang language
Poesia na Kristang kung English
Earth is the only planet in our solar system not named after a Greco-Roman deity. The name used in Western academia during the Renaissance was Tellus Mater or Terra Mater, the Latin for “earth mother”, i.e. “Mother Earth”, goddess of the earth in ancient Roman religion and mythology. From the Latin terra – with origins in the Proto-Indo-European ters-, meaning “dry” – the Romance languages derived their word for Earth, including the French La Terre, Italian La Terra and Spanish La Tierra.
Lisa Lim
'How on Earth did our planet get its name? Not from a Greek or Roman deity, that’s for sure', South China Morning Post, 12 April 2019
We say Tera, too, in Kristang;
all’s well and good, tudu bong, siara-siuris-siarang.
Nang asih, teng otru fabula podih ubih, na skuridang
di istoria na rintah di fundeza di tudu nus sa
alma, tudu nus sa korsang-korsang.
Otru nomi di Tera?
Another name for the Earth?
Keng podih konfiah kung bos, malisang?
Mas isti ki yo ubih, ki yo desah prendeh, di sabia
ki nus sa dizaboh-dizaboh ja gadrah pra nus na olotu sa kupaisang:
A name even more ancient than Earth, or Erde-Tyrene, or Tera
for the world we live and breathe and die on
is Karimang.
Nteh nada na ngua otru nomi,
you protest,
as if you, unlike everyone else,
do not experience
the strange sense of dissonance that comes with perceiving the Earth
as, suddenly, another planet
located, as if, elsewhere.
Nteh otru na isti berdadi,
you insist,
even as some strange things begin to clear;
something comes bounding through the mist.
Blangkang,
Bremelang,
Karimang.
Agora, seng Lonchil soneh,
ja ingkontrah, mbes pra mbes, kung tres irmang-irmang.
Jemelu-jemelu?
Ngua di arena, ngua di klor di gera;
ngua di fing—ngua di fortuna?
And in English?
The name Karimang could come from many avenues, many sources, many
agendas.
It hearkens back to Ahriman, undoubtedly,
yet carries a different kind of mystique,
more playful. More Puck-like. As irreverent, but much more
godly.
Kari kung mang na Kristang? A curry of hands makes no sense.
Karimun, pertu di Singapura? An echo, but also lacking in coherence.
But this is a creole language.
And Their name is from the same place and space as krismatra.
In fact, it is a word that we see quite often thrown around these days:
another name for the planet Earth in English
could be Charisma.