why is our planet called earth????????

Question

this is for seience...[extra credit]..
but again why is our planet called earth??
stupid question huh...well its not me who picked it..
i just wannna know why it called earth?
HELP MEEEEEE

Answer 1

I believe the term Earth for our planet arrose with the Ancient Greeks, who actually thought the Earth was a sphere (way before Columbus) and that the center of the Earth was the literal center of the Universe. They also thought all things tended to gravitate towards the center of the Universe (Earth). Try to imagine what the Ancient Greeks knew about geography. They called the unknown lands to the East "Asia", the unknown lands to the south "Africa" and the unknown lands to the north "Europa". The amount of water in their geographic understanding was quite small, and so it is quite logical for them to call the whole shebang "Earth" or soil. Furthermore, the Earth was thought to be female, and the provider and nurturer of all life. The symbol for the Earth as a planet is a circle with a small cross at the bottom, which is the same as the symbol for "female". Furthermore, farmers divide the earth with their plows in order to plant their seeds for a good harvest in a manner similar to how the penis divides the labia and plants the seed for a baby to be born. I hope this helps.

Answer 2

The english language has had a lot of influence from various other languages, but at its root it comes from the same ancient language as German, Dutch, and similar languages. In the ancient proto-germanic language, the word for soil or ground was "ertho." Over time, as people moved and the language evolved, it became erda in German and oerda in old english. Oerda became oertha, then oerth in middle english, evolving to the spelling "earth" that we use today.

It was in the early renaissance, around 1400, that scientists first extended the meaning of oerth (ground or soil) to mean the whole planet.

Answer 3

The English word "earth" has cognates in many modern and ancient languages. Examples in modern tongues include aarde in Afrikaans and Dutch, and Erde in German. The root has cognates in extinct languages such as ertha in Old Saxon and ert (meaning "ground") in Middle Irish, derived from the Old English eorðe. All of these words derive from the Proto-Indo-European base *er-.

Several Semitic languages have words for "earth" similar to those in Indo-European languages. Arabic has ard; Akkadian, irtsitu; Aramaic, araa; Phoenician, erets (which appears in the Mesha Stele); and Hebrew, ארץ (arets, or erets when not preceded by a definite article, or when followed by a noun modifier). The etymological connection between the words in Indo-European and Semitic languages are uncertain, though, and may simply be coincidence.

The standard name for people from Earth is Earthling, although Terran, Gaian, and Earther are alternate names that have been used in Science fiction.

Words for Earth in other languages include: Terre (French), पृथ्वी pr̥thvī (Sanskrit), Maa (Finnish and Estonian), Pamînt (Romanian), Föld (Hungarian), Ziemia (Polish), Zemlja (Russian and Serbian), Tierra (Spanish), Terra (Italian), Diqiu (Mandarin), Deiqao (Cantonese), Jigu (Korean), Bumi (Malay), Chikyuu (Japanese), Jorden (Danish, Norwegian, Swedish), כדור הארץ (Hebrew), Bhoomi (Telugu), Gi, Choma (Greek), Dunia (Swahili), Âlem, Dünya الْمَسْكُونَة (Arabic), Dinê (Kurdish), Ergir երկիր (Armenian), Jehun, Zamin (Persian), and Acun, Yeryüzü, Yerküre (Turkish).[5]

Answer 4

Hi.

First, three definitions:

1. Indo-European:
A large family of languages spoken from South Asia to Western Europe and the United States, comprising the Balto-Slavonic, Germanic, Italic, Indo-Iranian, Celtic, Greek, Albanian, Armenian, Anatolian, and Tocharian branches. This language family includes many modern languages such as Bangla, English, French, German, Spanish, Russian, Hindi, and Urdu.
--also--
The ancestor of modern Indo-European languages, the reconstructed language that is the prehistoric ancestor of modern languages belonging to Indo-European

2. proto-germanic:
An ancestor of modern Germanic languages: a reconstructed hypothetical language that is believed to be the ancestor of the Germanic branch of the Indo-European family of languages

3. cognate:
Related in origin, as certain words in genetically related languages descended from the same ancestral root; for example, English name and Latin nōmen from Indo-European *no-men-.

Then, an answer (shorter than the definitions!):
According to one school of thought, the word 'earth' comes ultimately from the Indo-European root *er-, the verb form of which is *ar "to plough".

That root supposedly also gave rise to the proto-Germanic word *ertho, from which German got 'erde', Dutch got 'aarde' (source of aardvark "earth pig"), and Swedish and Danish got 'jord'. There's also the Greek 'éraze' or "on the ground" and Welsh 'erw' or "field". All of these words have meanings related to "ground", "soil" and "world".

There is another school, however, which feels the connection to the Indo-European *er- is questionable, especially because the majority of earth cognates are Germanic in origin. This, they claim, suggests a proto-Germanic origin for the word--and we don't know that proto-Germanic word that came to be, today, in English, "earth".

Answer 5

The English word "earth" has cognates in many modern and ancient languages. Examples in modern tongues include aarde in Afrikaans and Dutch, and Erde in German. The root has cognates in extinct languages such as ertha in Old Saxon and ert (meaning "ground") in Middle Irish, derived from the Old English eorðe. All of these words derive from the Proto-Indo-European base *er-.

Answer 6

Sorry don't really know. But I would like to think that it is called this because of the dirt. Earth - Dirt. I suggest you look for the Greek equivalent for Earth, your answer might ly there. As all other planets are named after Greek gods or goddesses

Answer 7

Well, a long time ago, when the first astronomers were naming the planets, they originally wanted to call ours 'Bob', but another planet was already called 'Bob', so they decided on their second choice ... Earth. The name caught on and we still call it Earth today!

P.S.: The planet 'Bob' met it's untimely demise when a giant asteroid collided with it, smashing it to smithereens! I know it's sad, but 'Bob' is gone!

Answer 8

It comes from the Germen word Erde. Why, I don't know.

Answer 9

Why not? Sounds like a cool name anyway.

Answer 10

earth is called eatrh becuase the scientists didnt now what else to name is DUH lol is sounds cool to thats what im wondering theres a lot a Q i have answered like at