விண்மீன்

விண்மீன்

The word விண்மீன் is a small theory of the universe. Whoever coined it looked at the night sky and decided it was an ocean — dark, deep, full of moving things. That decision is encoded permanently in the compound. நட்சத்திரம் is more precise, more useful for navigation and astrology, and carries none of this. The fish got beached somewhere around the medieval period and never found its way back to the water.