No Idea

allentyb SG

I ponder to myself this question before, during my sleepless night, searching through google, yahoo, msn – why is it earth is called earth, who is the one who named earth? exact name…. still no answer at all.

nuttawood1990 SG

LOL..wat the heck U DOING?!!!!!!!!

FireIce SG

u no search in wiki??

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.

allentyb SG

I did search wiki also…... BUT! i wanted to know the exact name, whoever named earth.

alexkusu SG

next time dont use google, just use sgforums

furb SG

Good lucking searching then. I think even gods don’t know who named earth earth.

Darkness_hacker99 SG

QUESTION:
Why is our planet called Earth?

ANSWER from Dave Hollenbach on May 20:
"Earth" is a word which means the ground, the dirt, the rocks, the
things we humans walk on. Long ago, it was not known that the other
planets were like the "Earth". They also have rocks and solid ground
and mountains. But people didn't know that then. They looked like
stars, except they moved in their positions in the sky if you looked
at them night after night. So they were named after the gods. The
word "planet" comes from an old word which meant "wanderer", because
the planets wander through the constellations of stars.
Of course, the planets are much closer than the stars, but if you
see Jupiter some night, you might see it in the direction of the
star constellation Leo, while a month later it might be in the direction
of the star constellation Scorpio.

allentyb SG

NAMES!!!!!!!!! Who is the fellow or group of ancient who named this planet after earth, and you probably cut and paste from wiki, and i did know why is it named as earth!

FireIce SG

it's almost impossible trace the etymology of many words unless it's a modern word coined in recent times........
like discovering a new star and naming it after someone or something...

words were simple utterances in ancient civilisations
which were evolved and documented to sound more "correct" with better phonetics and tones and used until today.....

Ito_^ SG

i know but i dun wanna tell u. Very Happy

allentyb SG

........ i really wonder, since the word f u c k can be traced back to its origin, i don't understand why can't anyone on this earth, can answer to this very simple question, which ironic, we have been on this planet for years that i don't bother to figure it out.Blame the english

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuck

dragg SG

sibei chim men!!!

Shocked Shocked Shocked

SilverRevo SG

mr yabba dabba doo Mr. Green

dragg SG

read this book, beyond psychology by bhagwan shree rajneesh.

Mr. Green

allentyb SG

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