Q: (L) What planet is it described in several books as a desert with huge spiders with legs like tree trunks?[5]
A: Uzuli.
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This is something that I find weird.
Why would the C's give a name to the planet?
It's very explanatory saying it's on Zeta Reticuli, but why telling it's called Uzuli?
If I time-travelled to Ancient Rome and was to answer what's at the end of the Atlantic Ocean, I would not say ''America'' at all, that would be meaningless. I would rather say ''A huge continent, from Gibraltar it's around 5000 mille passuum.''
It makes me wonder, these words the C's give that don't exist in our (standard) vocabulary might be a clue about something!
Here it's my investigation of what might be behind the term ''Uzuli''
I came to the conclusion it probably has to do with the webs those giant spiders might weave.
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1) Clues from Turkic languages:
Uzun: long, tall (maybe related to the spiders' size)
ör: Proto-Turkic root signifying braiding or weaving (a possible connection to spiders' webs)
2) Clues from Russian
узел (uzel): knot (relationship with weaving)
уз (uz): narrow, strait (like the lines forming the web)
3) A clue from Japanese
渦 (Uzu): whirpool, eddy (suggestive of something that entraps)