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How did Earth get its name?

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How did Earth get its name?

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The first use of the English word “earth” to mean our home planet was around 1400 AD. The word itself comes from Germanic roots and originally meant the material world, as opposed to the spiritual realms of heaven and hell.

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That’s merely the English version of a Germanic name, not the only name. In both English and German Earth (or Erde) can mean both the planet and the ground. As people were living on the ground, it presumably seemed reasonable to use the same term for the planet the ground is part of.

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Marylin T. Monroe, a student of Cosmology in Los Angeles, California, named this planet “the Earth” in 0012 A.D. She was devoted to the study of the Universe and has also been credited with many other catalog type developments.

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