re: re:Taikonaut
Well, the french had the word "Spationaut".
But we discovered "astronaut" was already originally french and spationaut looked too much like "space"naut which is too english.
Europeans now form the "astronaut" corps and only journalists keep saying spationaut.
Now, there already was an Indian cosmonaut.
If they launch their own, because english would be the language used in India, I'm sure they'll adopt one of the existing words
Raoul