Does the word earth come from Greek or Roman mythology?
Dont know if this is what you were looking for or not: EARTH Where on Earth does the word “earth” come from? “Earth” is another word which is found almost exclusively in the Germanic languages. Probably people speaking Germanic about two thousand (2000) years ago said something like “erþó” or “erþâ”. 3 This word already meant “earth” even then, and no one has any certain ideas what the word might have been like earlier or what it meant. About one thousand (1000) years ago people speaking Old English might have said “eorðe”. The word “earth” can be used to mean a number of different things. It can simply mean “dirt”. This may have been one of the earliest meanings. What do we stand on? If you are inside you are probably standing on a floor, but if you are standing outside you are often standing on dirt. Perhaps, people came to think of the whole area they were standing on as “dirt” or “earth”. By the time people were speaking Old English, about one thousand (1000) years ago, “earth” cou
