Which genius called our planet earth??

Question

I mean who had :, the power, the influence, the intelligence and the Great idea to call our planet "Earth" and why did we accept such name??

Why not a sci-fi name???

Yea umm...the bible doesn't have the answer

YEA we are on Wrexitar!!!

Answer 1

Unfortunately, I think it's pretty impossible to say exactly who first named the planet 'Earth'. Actually, I really doubt one person really named it intentionally; rather it developed over time as part of the English language. Earth is Old English and German in origin, related to the Old Saxon 'ertha', the Dutch 'aerde', and the German 'erda'. Terra is a French and Latin word, and so isn't part of the 'Earth' etymology. I'm not really an expert on words and word origins, but 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. I tried to look up more specific details about the specific usage of the word over time, but even the Oxford English Dictionary (online) admits:

"Men's notions of the shape and position of the earth have so greatly changed since Old Teutonic times, while the language of the older notions has long outlived them, that it is very difficult to arrange the senses and applications of the word in any historical order."

So, as with the names of the other planets that have been known throughout human history (Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn), it's difficult to say who first thought of the planet as Earth. The names were part of culture even before we really understood the significance of what planets are and where they are in space. For more information on astronomical names, please see the previously asked questions listed below.

Note (KLM) The name of the Sun has a similar origin to that of the Earth.

Answer 2

The etymology of the word Earth comes from Middle English (erthe) and Old High German (erde). Just like most English words, it is derived from other languages. The name of our planet was derived simply from the flow of language and the name is different in various languages (Vuravura in Tahetian, Eretz in Hebrew, Aarde in Dutch, Terra in Italian, etc).

As for the "genius" who determines what names to call the planets, the International Astronomical Union is officially responsible for naming celestial bodies. They followed the tradition of the names given to the planets by Roman and Greek mythology for most of the planets. However, all of the planets had names by the time they got around to making it official. Earth was already called such by that time because of the etymology and they stuck with the name.

Why not a sci-fi name? There was no widely accepted historical significance in a sci-fi name. While there has always been some creative exploration into what we now consider science fiction, the genre is actually a child of the latter part of the first half of the 20th century and would not have been at the forefront of the minds of those serving as the International Astronomical Union when it was founded in 1919.

Answer 3

Planets tend to be named after ancient gods (Mars, Neptune) Usually Roman.

Answer 4

God couldn't because at the time sci-fi didn't exist.

Answer 5

do you have some suggestion other than Krypton. We called it Wrexitar when we were kids and we were Wrexitarians.

Answer 6

You need to brush up on your Greek mythology.

Answer 7

read gensis 1:1