Does anyone know who first named our planet "earth"?

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Wikipedia to the rescue! “The first photograph ever taken of an “Earthrise,” on Apollo 8. The name Earth was derived from the Anglo-Saxon word erda, which means ground or soil. It became eorthe in Old English, then erthe in Middle English.[126]” (See the sources references at that link)

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