sputnik@WordPress

S’pútnik “Traveling Companion” ú as in the English word “put”, -nik rhymes with “cheek” in full: S’pútnik Zemlyi “Fellow Traveller with Earth” Origin 1957 (launched Oct. 4, 1957), from Russian sputnik "satellite," literally "traveling companion," from Old Church Slavonic supotiniku, from su- "with, together" (related to Ancient Greek syn- of same meaning, eg. synthetic ) + poti "way, journey" (from Proto-Indo European base pent- "to go, pass," or path in Germanic languages) + agent suffix -nik, common personal suffix in Slavic languages in contact with Yiddish meaning "person or thing associated with or involved in"