земля ► Meaning: earth, the Earth, land, soil, ground. Pronunciation: [zee-MLYAH]
The name Earth is an English/German name which simply means the ground. It comes from the Old English words 'eor(th)e' and 'ertha'. In German it is 'erde'. The name Earth is at least 1000 years old.
Answer and Explanation: In Japanese mythology, the name for the Earth is Chi or Tsuchi; which is considered one of the five elements of Godai.
The Lemko noun земля ⟨zemlja⟩ 'earth' comes from Proto-Slavic *zemļà (Derksen, 2008, p. 542).
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The word for Earth in French is la Terre.
To the Aztecs, Earth was called Tonantzin—"our mother"; to the Incas, Earth was called Pachamama—"mother earth". The Chinese Earth goddess Hou Tu is similar to Gaia, the Greek goddess personifying the Earth. Bhuma Devi is the goddess of Earth in Hinduism, influenced by Graha.
Prithvi (Sanskrit: पृथ्वी, pṛthvī, also पृथिवी, pṛthivī, "the Vast One"), also rendered Prithvi Mata, is the Sanskrit name for the earth, as well as the name of a devi (goddess) in Hinduism and some branches of Buddhism.
Earth is the one exception. Its name, according to the official gazetteer of planetary discovery, comes from the Indo-European base 'er', which produced the Germanic noun 'ertho', the modern German 'erde', Dutch 'aarde', Danish and Swedish 'jord', and English 'earth'.
Earth is the only planet in our solar system not named after a Greco-Roman deity. The name used in Western academia during the Renaissance was Tellus Mater or Terra Mater, the Latin for “earth mother”, i.e. “Mother Earth”, goddess of the earth in ancient Roman religion and mythology.
The planet Earth gets its name from the Old English eorþe, meaning “dirt, soil, or country.” In Old English, it was also occasionally used as a verb meaning to bury or inter someone.
So how should you refer to your home planet when you visit another country? In Spanish, you'd call it Tierra. Other versions of Earth include Aarde (Dutch), Terre (French), Jorden (Norwegian), Nchi (Swahili), and Bumi (Indonesian).
Venus has long been considered Earth's twin sister. The two planets are very similar in some respects and share many physical and orbital characteristics: inner planets.
The earliest time of the Earth is called the Hadean and refers to a period of time for which we have no rock record, and the Archean followed, which corresponds to the ages of the oldest known rocks on earth. These, with the Proterozoic Eon are called the Precambrian Eon.
In Greek mythology, Gaia (/ˈɡeɪə, ˈɡaɪə/; Ancient Greek: Γαῖα, romanized: Gaîa, a poetical form of Γῆ (Gê), meaning 'land' or 'earth'), also spelled Gaea /ˈdʒiːə/, is the personification of the Earth and one of the Greek primordial deities.
Pachamama (pacha + mama) is usually translated as Mother Earth. A more literal translation would be "World Mother" (in the Aymara and Quechua languages). The Inca goddess can be referred to in multiple ways; the primary way being Pachamama.
Terra is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "earth." The Latin term terra firma is used to denote dry land, typically upon return to solid ground after a rough sea voyage. While earth may refer to different things, symbolically it represents strength, stability, and growth.
In fact, the ancient Egyptians referred to Earth as the “House of Geb.” According to the ancient Egyptians, Geb was the grandson of Ra, and the son of Shu and Tefnut, the deities of air and moisture, respectively. Additionally, Geb was the twin of Nut, the goddess of the sky.
From Old French terre, from Latin terra (“earth”).
New France, French Nouvelle-France, (1534–1763), the French colonies of continental North America, initially embracing the shores of the St. Lawrence River, Newfoundland, and Acadia (Nova Scotia) but gradually expanding to include much of the Great Lakes region and parts of the trans-Appalachian West.
The word universe derives from the Old French word univers, which in turn derives from the Latin word universum. The Latin word was used by Cicero and later Latin authors in many of the same senses as the modern English word is used.
Mat Zemlya (Matka Ziemia or Matushka Zeml'ja) is the Moist (or Water) Earth Mother and is probably the oldest deity in Slavic mythology besides Marzanna. She is also called Mati Syra Zemlya meaning Mother Damp Earth or Mother Moist Earth. Her identity later blended into that of Mokosh.
The Slavic people immigrated from nations we know today as Belarus, Bosnia and Montenegro, Poland, Russia, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Macedonia, and Ukraine. The Slavs also include the Carpatho-Rusyn people, whose descendants are present in our area.