• Question: what does the name of our planet "earth" mean?

    Asked by Tanko to Andrea, Charlie 🚀, Col Op, Kirsty, Vinita on 17 Jun 2016.
    • Photo: Kirsty Lindsay

      Kirsty Lindsay answered on 17 Jun 2016:

      It means ‘ground’ from the words eor(th)e/ertha’ and ‘erde’ in old English and German.

    • Photo: Andrea Boyd

      Andrea Boyd answered on 17 Jun 2016:

      Dirt/land/ground.

      The word is similar in most languages (at least the ones that I speak) and the word for Earth is the same as the word for dirt/soil/land/ground which is funny because our planet is mostly water!

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