Veles

释义与例句

name
  1. 1.

    The pagan Slavic god of the fertile earth, livestock, waters, and the underworld, often portrayed as a chimera.

  2. 1.

    A city in central North Macedonia.

  3. 2.

    HD 75898 b, an exoplanet approximately 2.71 times the mass of Jupiter in the Stribor system, ~255 ly from Earth.

词源

Likely of Proto-Indo-European origin but the exact root is difficult to pinpoint. Suggestions have included *h₂welh₁- (“wool”) and *welg- (“damp, humid”). Also compare Lithuanian vẽlės (“ghostly figures of the deceased”), archaic form of modern velnias (“demon, devil”). More at Veles.

来源：wiktionary