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earth—Soil.

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Daily Puzzle #962 · February 6, 2024

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/ɜːθ/, /ɝθ/, /ɵːθ/

Origin

From Middle English erthe, from Old English eorþe, from Proto-West Germanic *erþu, from Proto-Germanic *erþō (“dirt, ground, earth”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁érteh₂ (“earth”). Cognates Cognate with Scots erd, yerd, yird, yirth (“earth, loam, mould, soil; ground”), Yola eard, eart, eord, eorth, erth (“earth”), North Frisian eerd, eerde, iarde, Iart, iir, jard, örd, Öört (“earth; world”), Saterland Frisian Idde, Äid, Äide (“earth; soil; ground”), West Frisian ierde (“earth; soil; ground”), Alemannic German Ëërde (“earth”), Bavarian Erd, Erdn (“world; soil; ground”), Central Franconian Ääd (“earth”), Cimbrian èerda (“earth”), Dutch aard, aarde (“earth”), German Erde (“earth; soil; ground; world”), German Low German Eer (“earth”), Limburgish eerd (“earth”), Luxembourgish Äerd (“earth; soil”), Vilamovian Ād (“earth”), Yiddish ערד (erd, “earth; soil”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish jord (“earth”), Faroese jørð (“earth”), Icelandic jörð (“earth”), Norn yurn (“the earth”), Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌸𐌰 (airþa, “earth”); also Latin ōra (“border, edge, rim”), Breton erv (“ridge between furrows”), Welsh erw (“acre”), Ancient Greek ἔραζε (éraze, “to the ground”), Lithuanian erdvė (“expanse, space”), Albanian varr, vorr (“grave”), Tocharian B āre (“dust, loose earth”), Sanskrit उर्वरा (urvarā, “fertile soil, field yielding crops”), Hittite 𒅕𒄩𒀸 (er-ḫa-aš /⁠erḫaš⁠/, “border, boundary, line”). Probably unrelated, but 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 unrelated.

name

alt-ofAlternative letter-case form of Earth; our planet, third out from the Sun.
“The astronauts saw the earth from the porthole.”
“We live in the flicker - may it last as long as the old earth keeps rolling!”
uncountable, usuallyThe third planet of the Solar System; the world upon which humans live.
“It's my theory that we'll keep being reborn on as many Earths as it takes until every person gets it exactly right from the moment they are born until the moment they die.”
“The arrival of the new prefixes means the Earth can now be said to weigh six ronnagrams, and Jupiter about two quettagrams.”
uncountable, usuallyThe personification of the Earth or earth, (chiefly) as a fertile woman or (religion) goddess.

noun

uncountableSoil.
“This is good earth for growing potatoes.”
uncountableAny general rock-based material.
“She sighed when the plane's wheels finally touched earth.”
countable, uncountableThe ground, land (as opposed to the sky or sea).
“Birds are of the sky, not of the earth.”
“Like most human activities, ballooning has sponsored heroes and hucksters and a good deal in between. For every dedicated scientist patiently recording atmospheric pressure and wind speed while shiver”
British, countable, uncountableA connection electrically to the earth ((US) ground); on equipment: a terminal connected in that manner.
countable, uncountableThe lair or den (as a hole in the ground) of an animal such as a fox.
countable, uncountableA region of the planet; a land or country.
countable, uncountableWorldly things, as against spiritual ones.
countable, uncountableThe world of our current life (as opposed to heaven or an afterlife).
“"Beauty is truth, truth beauty,"—that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.”
countable, metonymically, uncountableThe people on the globe.
“And the whole earth was of one language, and of one ſpeach.”
countable, uncountableAny planet similar to the Earth (our earth): an exoplanet viewed as another earth, or a potential one.
“New space telescopes may accelerate the search for other earths that may be out there.”
archaic, countable, uncountableThe human body.
countable, uncountableThe aforementioned soil- or rock-based material, considered one of the four or five classical elements.
countable, obsolete, uncountableAny of certain substances now known to be oxides of metal, which were distinguished by being infusible, and by insolubility in water.
“The term Earths was formerly, and is still, but in a modified sense, applied to several substances which compose all the various rocks, stones, gems, mountains, and soils covering the face of the glob”

verb

UK, transitiveTo connect electrically to the earth.
“That noise is because the amplifier is not properly earthed.”
transitiveTo bury.
“The Miſer earths his Treaſure; and the Thief, / Watching the Mole, half-beggars him ere Morn.”
transitiveTo hide, or cause to hide, in the earth; to chase into a burrow or den.
“[…]the Fox is earth’d,[…]”
“This is the time that the horseman are flung out, not having the cry to lead them to the death. When quadruped animals of the venery or hunting kind are at rest, the stag is said to be harboured, the ”
intransitiveTo burrow.
“foxes earth'd”

Formsairth(alternative, Scotland) · erd(alternative, dialectal, rare) · yearth(alternative, obsolete) · earths(plural) · earths(present, singular, third-person) · earthing(participle, present) · earthed(participle, past) · earthed(past) · Earths(plural) · earth(alternative)

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