Who named planet Earth?

crackers

The name Earth comes from the Indo-European base 'er' which produced the Germanic noun 'ertho' and utlimately German 'erde', Dutch 'aarde', Danish and Swedish 'jord', and English 'earth'. Related forms include Greek 'eraze' meaning 'on the ground' and Welsh 'erw' meaning 'field'. http://wwwflag.wr.usgs.gov/USGSFlag/Space/nomen/append7.html Feb 04 01, 3:44 AM

stormy

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 hundreds of other names for earth in other languages. In Roman Mythology, the goddess of the earth us Tellus - the fertile soil (Greek : Gaia - terra mater - mother earth). It was not until the time of Copernicus (the 16th century) that it was understood that earth was just another planet. Feb 04 01, 4:27 AM

Gen110

God did: "And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called He seas; and God saw that it was good." Genesis 1:10 Jun 10 06, 1:00 PM

Baloo55th

I'll leave it to Arpy to tell us what the actual original text said, as that's a translation you've quoted there. The name for this planet is different in almost every language (apart from very closely related ones), and there has been no attempt that I can think of to get a fixed single name for it that will be used by every different language speaker. Jun 10 06, 3:24 PM

Arpeggionist

"Vayikra Elohim layabashah 'eretz' ul'mikveh hamayim kara 'yamim', vayar Elohim ki tov." That's as good a transliteration as I can provide for the verse quoted above. As it shows, God called the LAND "Eretz" (or earth, land, ground, the Hebrew word is not all that far from the Indo-Germanic). But the land, as can be shown on any household globe, accounts for only about 29% of our planet's surface area. I've read that some suggest our planet would be better named "Ocean". But history is history, and history was written from the point of view of creatures who did not live in the water, and cared only little about knowing the place of fish in the universe. Jun 10 06, 5:01 PM

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