earth

Betekenis

Name

Alternative letter-case form of Earth; our planet, third out from the Sun.

Noun

1. Soil.
2. Any general rock-based material.
3. The ground, land (as opposed to the sky or sea).
4. A connection electrically to the earth ((US) ground); on equipment: a terminal connected in that manner.
5. The lair or den (as a hole in the ground) of an animal such as a fox.
6. A region of the planet; a land or country.
7. Worldly things, as against spiritual ones.
8. The world of our current life (as opposed to heaven or an afterlife).
9. The people on the globe.
10. Any planet similar to the Earth (our earth): an exoplanet viewed as another earth, or a potential one.
11. The human body.
12. The aforementioned soil- or rock-based material, considered one of the four or five classical elements.
13. (obsolete) Any of certain substances now known to be oxides of metal, which were distinguished by being infusible, and by insolubility in water.

Verb

1. To connect electrically to the earth.
2. To bury.
3. To hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den.
4. To burrow.

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/ɜːθ/

Etymologie

From Middle English erthe, from Old English eorþe, from Proto-West Germanic *erþu, from Proto-Germanic *erþō (“dirt, ground, earth”) (compare West Frisian ierde, Low German Eerd, Dutch aarde, Dutch Low Saxon eerde, German Erde, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian jord), related to *erwô (“earth”) (compare Old High German ero, perhaps Old Norse jǫrfi), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁er- (compare Ancient Greek *ἔρα, “earth” (*éra, “earth”) in ἔραζε (éraze, “to the ground, to earth”), perhaps Tocharian B yare (“gravel”).
Probably unrelated, and of unknown etymology, is Old Armenian երկիր (erkir, “earth”). Likewise, the phonologically similar Proto-Semitic *ʔarṣ́- – whence Arabic أَرْض (ʔarḍ), Hebrew אֶרֶץ (ʾereṣ) – is probably not related.

Zinnen

They're only made of rock crystal , and there are millions of rock crystals in the earth .

Ze zijn alleen gemaakt van rotskristal en er zijn miljoenen rotskristallen in de aarde.