How did the Earth get its name?

Answer 1

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From the 1001 planet names book

Actually....

The name Earth is an English/German name which simply means the ground. It comes from the Old English words 'eor(th)e' and 'ertha'. In German it is 'erde'. The name Earth is at least 1000 years old.

Answer 2

Probably from aliens.

Answer 3

I believe that God named it when he created it.

Answer 4

some old smart guy named it (=

Answer 5

The word Earth originates from the Middle English word, erthe, which came
from Old English eorthe; akin to Old High German erda. This then traces
back to the Greek, eraze from the Hebrew erez, meaning ground.

Answer 6

i think we got it from the greeks

Answer 7

It's only called the 'Earth' here on Earth. Other planets have their own names for us!

Answer 8

The Man.

Answer 9

god named it

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my brain

Answer 10

in greek the Earth is called "Gi" from the ancient deity "Gaia", the wife of "Uranus". The 2 of them created the world according to greek mythology.
If u r interested in the origins of the english word, some of the other answerers gave u really good and detailled explanations....

Answer 11

Earth is Old English and German in origin, related to the Old Saxon 'ertha', the Dutch 'aerde', and the German 'erda'.

It seems likely that, initially, people used Earth to mean 'land'. Subsequently, it was the natural way to refer to—all—the land and the planet.

Source(s):

http://curious.astro.cornell.edu/questio…

Answer 12

I speak three languages fluently, and know a smattering of several others. In all of them, the name of our planet is a word that means "dirt" or "soil" or, well, "earth". Some languages - for example Finnish and Swedish - add the word "ball" or "sphere" too, so our planet's name translates roughly as "dirtball".

The name of our planet sounds completely different in different languages. Earth, Maapallo, Jorden... no similarity at all between them. The only thing they have in common is that each culture/language named the planet after the stuff beneath our feet.

Answer 13

Adriano Maggay named it in 52 BC.

Answer 14

Earth is the only planet whose English name does not derive from Greek/Roman mythology. The name derives from Old English and Germanic. There are, of course, hundreds of other names for the planet in other languages. In Roman Mythology, the goddess of the Earth was Tellus - the fertile soil (Greek: Gaia, terra mater - Mother Earth).

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Google

Answer 15

It is not called earth by all of the people who live on it.. I live in Finland and here it is called MääPällö. Which translates to Land ball...

Hey dude which planet you come from..

Me I come from Land Ball..

Weird *** Finns...haha!!!

Answer 16

Earth is the word used for the ground we live on IE. soil, sand,rocks and other ground minerals, of which all vegetation grows on or in.
stevemproco.

Answer 17

earth got it's name from a race of extraterrestrials called Anunnaqi, when they came to this planet to mine for gold.They named it ERIDU. Which means in thier language "home away from home", it was also known to the sumerians as Qi, and this is where the greeks changed it to Gi,Ge,Geo as in geography,geometrics,geometry etc the goddess gaia is greek mythology. Also another greek word for earth, the ground part was TERRA as in territory,terrain, and the word extraterrestrial, which is something EXTRA on TERRA from the ASTRAL stars.

Answer 18

because it's dirty.

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cold stark reality.
common sense.
etc.

Answer 19

Little Earthworm in the ground,
You see no sight, you hear no sound,
You gnaw out tunnels down beneath
Without the aid of any teeth,
Without no feet, no arms, no hands,
We are behoved to understand,
Just how with attributes so few,
They named a planet after you.

(Thank you J.Hart).

Answer 20

Because in the old days the kings were told to position their " "EAR" to the ground so that they could hear if the enemy were comming . So with so much dirt and soil on the ground they added " TH" to the word......... Bingo we have the word "Earth" It's actually to do with dirt and soil and air in the sky.

Answer 21

It comes from the ancient indian Sanscript language :-
Earth was called "Eea" meaning "universe", and from there it went to the middle east and europe. Whilst the word was in transit, it also changed meaning to "ground, soil, dirt"
The greeks picked it up, and cleaned it, and it became "earth" the heavenly body.

Answer 22

How did anything get its name?

Answer 23

the same bright spark who invited fire

Answer 24

earth derived its name from earthworms

Answer 25

the name for our planet earth originates from the ancient greeks, who gave the name Europa to the greater land they lived in .

Answer 26

"God" did not name it Earth as there isn't a God

I know this because the Bible says God created Adam and Eve first, but science knows that prehistoric cavemen evolved into modern day man, not Adam and Eve into cavemen and then into modern man

Answer 27

From the guy who named the whole solar system!!!!
Whoever he maybe! no-one knows!

Answer 28

isn't it just another name for 'Home' EArth may be called something else on another planet!

Answer 29

don't now but how did lots of things get their names like we are called humans, we could be called computers. thats just crazy!!

Answer 30

Well, back in the day, wen there were nowt, sum guy decided f'ot make sumfin. So he made a planet, couple of stars n stuff and fort what should I call it? Galaxy sprung to mind. Next he went on to naming the rest until he got to us. And he thought...

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Answer 31

how did anything get the names they have been given?