WI Uranus discovered 1500 BC

Целус/Caelus sounds like "A moustache is not damaged" (Цел ус). A bit less so in Belarusian Цэлус/Цэлы вус, but the tendency shows. This would be the only name of a planet sounding like a phrase (as of now, there are no phrases that form puns with planet names in Russian).
And even this is a forced pun as the phrase and the name of deity have stresses on different syllables.
 
Целус/Caelus sounds like "A moustache is not damaged" (Цел ус). A bit less so in Belarusian Цэлус/Цэлы вус, but the tendency shows. This would be the only name of a planet sounding like a phrase (as of now, there are no phrases that form puns with planet names in Russian).
And even this is a forced pun as the phrase and the name of deity have stresses on different syllables.
Wouldn't Caelus be pronounced with a K, though?
 
In this case, "ae" past "c" is read as "e", which in turn makes "c" read as "ц", unlike say "Carolus Rex", when "a" past "c" makes it read as "к". Sorry for this offtopic.
 
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