Re: Shall We All Leave At Once?

On 26 May, 20:05, "Agamemnon" <agamem...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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On 2008-05-26 14:03:20 +0100, "Agamemnon" <agamem...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On 26 May, 00:25, "Agamemnon" <agamem...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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On 25 May, 21:25, marc_CH <m...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Agamemnon wrote:
The planets are all named after Gods.

There's a god named 'Earth', is there? Wow. What this the god of?
Dirt?

Yes. Ge or Gaia, aka. Mother Earth derived from the Phoenician >>
Goddess
of nature, Beruth.

And how do any of these names become the word 'Earth'?

Ah, easy. You see, Beruth contains four of the same letters as Earth,
and to Aggy looking at it and not bothering to do his research,
"Beruth" (pronounced with an "uth" sound) looks as though it sounds a
bit like "Earth". From there Aggy's simple-minded take on philology
does the rest - if two words look and sound (to him) vaguely similar

GET AND EDUCATION YOU FUCKING PRICK!

Earth is Mother Nature. Beruth is the Phoenician Goddess of Nature, the
Phoenician Mother Goddess. It's not just about the word itself but its
meaning and function. Both words are identical names for the Goddess of
nature and both words mean land.

The Germanic peoples in case you don't know claim royal decent from the
Assyrians, a Semitic people. The Hebrew word for Earth (dry land) is
Eretz
(Genesis 1:9-10).- Hide quoted text -

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<<<Oh, and in case you're interested:

earth
O.E. eorðe "ground, soil, dry land," also used (along with
middangeard) for "the (material) world" (as opposed to the heavens or
the underworld), from P.Gmc. *ertho (cf. O.N. jörð, M.Du. eerde,
O.H.G. erda, Goth. airþa), from PIE base *er-. The earth considered as
a planet was so called from c.1400. Earthy in the fig. sense of
"coarse, unrefined" is from 1594. Earthworm first attested 1591.
Earthwork is from 1633. Earthlight apparently coined 1833 by British
astronomer John Herschel.>>>

And the PIE root is from the SEMITIC Eretz!

No it's NOT. It's Indo-european!

Only after it was adopted from Semitic.

So not only have you lost all contact with reality, as is usual for
you, but you've also lost all sense of time - PIE predated Semitic,
and even if it didn't predate Proto-Semitic it certainly predated
Phoenician and any goddess called Beruth, so even this wild conjecture
doesn't help your case (which was not that "Earth" was derived from
some random Semitic word meaning land, but specifically that it was
named after a Phoenecian goddess) - and there's no suggestion that the
proto-Indo-European base had anything to do with any goddess.

Phil
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