Who named Earth?

Factual Questions
1

I was watching a discovery channel show the other night on the solar system and it occurred to me to ask…“Who named Earth?” I haven’t been able to find anything online so far, does anyone have information/suggestions.

Thanks!

2

Every distinct culture has had it’s own name for our planet. Of course, for much of history, we didn’t know it was a planet. so, it’s natural that terms for “ground” or “dirt” came to be used as the name for the planet as well. in Latin, it was Terra; in Greek, it was Geos.

3

The MAN!

4

Thanks Q.E.D. Makes perfect sense.

And, Eric II, thanks too. I wasn’t really sure…(ha ha!)
:wink:

5

E. Arthur

6

So, if the terrain had been generally a little wetter, we’d have called our planet ‘mud’?

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http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/earth.html

The German word for ground is Erde.

8

Once we get out into the galaxy, I think the other races are gonna laugh at us because we named our planet “dirt”.

9

Not to worry; there’s always someone worse off than yourself; the compost creatures of the Gyzinticor III star system happened to name their own planet ‘Shite’

10

The ironic thing is that in their language, it means “smells like roses”