How did the Earth get its name?

What a shame that none of the search engines online are working tonight, since it would have taken maybe 3 seconds to find the information.

Hmmm... trange, they all seem to be working now...

http://coolcosmos.ipac.caltech.edu/cosmic_kids/Ask...

http://www.astronomycafe.net/qadir/q827.html

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

It is another name for Dirt (in english, dirt is Terre in french and terra in latin)

It is the natural thing to call the stuff you stand on "earth" and the stuff above you "sky"

A long time ago in a land far far away.... when human first develop languages, some cave men went hunting and when one of them fall face first into the mud, he spat it out "Uggrrth!.." the name stuck ever since.

as in dirt ? land

it should be called planet water

Terra is the latin for land

depends on the language

until 500 years ago most people had no idea it was a planet

I don't know.