Talk:Terminology/@comment-36918921-20181121091737/@comment-37883549-20190806144426

It might be a plot point in how the language formed, similar to why in Kararagi they call people who are scavengers "Hyenas". My own headcanon (nothing grounded in the story) is that an isekai'd person brought some technology into the world, rather like a meteor would fall into the world, and people tried to make recreations of them using magic.

You also have to remember that in Japanese, you can also refer to meteor, the falling kind, as: 流星, and since most of the Re Zero world don't speak using modern loan words, that would be how they would refer to meteors I believe.

You can check the word's disambiguation here: https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%82%A2

You can see nearly all instances translate to "Meteor" and that it can be used to refer to 流星,