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« dnia: Lutego 05, 2022, 03:21:25 pm »By the way, what does "kobyszcze" mean? It looks like a plural form (?), but I don't read Polish, I can't find kobysz* in web dictionaries and the German translator too seems to have opted for Latin.
The name given by Lem is created as an abbreviation from three words
KO - kontemplator - someone who contemplates
BY. - bytu - BYT means being, existence
SZCZĘ - szczęsny - it is like lucky but more Merry
So it is someone or a creature that contemplates his/her/it's happy existence