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who decided the planet should be called earth and when?
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Our friend Wikipedia says:
The root can be traced back to ertha in Old Saxon and ert (meaning 'ground') in Middle Irish. Taking into account metathesis, we can find cognates of the word Earth in the Latin terra and in the modern Romance Languages (i.e. tierra in Spanish).
Among ancient languages, we find the Assyrian irtsitu and the Aramaic araa, as well as the Phoenician erets, which appears in the Mesha Stele. A possible origin of the word Earth is the ancient (and modern) Hebrew word ארץ (arets, or erets when followed by a noun modifier), which appears in the first sentence of the Bible: 'In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth (הארץ)' [Genesis 1:1].
This, however, doesn't answer the question of "who" decided, etc. I'm afraid that is unanswerable...
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