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Originally Posted by ballaratdragons
I was just thinking about this thread and its subject.
We know who named the Planets, it is written in History.
But who named Earth 'Earth'?
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Interesting question I have never thought about myself. I found
this related to the question:
...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 people used Earth to mean 'land' and then it was the natural thing to refer to all the land and the planet.