• Question: How did earth gets it name?

    Asked by issi759 to Alessandro, Angela, Claudia, Marina, Phil on 12 Mar 2013.
    • Photo: Alessandro Guazzi

      Alessandro Guazzi answered on 12 Mar 2013:

      The earth has different names in every language, but generally they all derive from an ancient word for “ground” or “soil”. The English word earth derives from the Anglo-Saxon word “eorde” which meant ground or dry land.

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