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TIL that we don’t know who named the Earth. Unlike other planets there are no records of how it got its name. The name Earth, and variations of it, date back 1000+ years. (www.skyatnightmagazine.com)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I've seen worse.

Like. There's a Spanish city called Cartagena. And a neighbourhood in that city called Nueva Cartagena.

What's Spanish "Nueva"? New.

What's "Cartagena"? It was inherited from Latin "Carthago Nova", then univerbated. That Latin "nova" is the same as Spanish "nueva", new.

Where did "Carthago" come from? Ultimately from Phoenician, 𐤒𐤓𐤕-𐤇𐤃𐤔𐤕/qrt-ḥdšt. That 𐤇𐤃𐤔𐤕/ḥdšt means city, and the 𐤒𐤓𐤕/qrt means new.

The neighbourhood name is literally "new new new city".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

Amazing