Blaze@reddthat.com to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.caEnglish · 6 months agoTIL that we don’t know who named the Earth. Unlike other planets there are no records of how it got its name. The name Earth, and variations of it, date back 1000+ years.www.skyatnightmagazine.comexternal-linkmessage-square64fedilinkarrow-up1285arrow-down129
arrow-up1256arrow-down1external-linkTIL that we don’t know who named the Earth. Unlike other planets there are no records of how it got its name. The name Earth, and variations of it, date back 1000+ years.www.skyatnightmagazine.comBlaze@reddthat.com to Today I Learned (TIL)@lemmy.caEnglish · 6 months agomessage-square64fedilink
minus-squareLvxferrelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-26 months agoFair point - notlahtlacōl. “World” does seem more accurate. I wouldn’t be surprised if modern Nahuatl varieties used tlālticpactli to refer to the planet itself. (Still, my example is from Classical Nahuatl, so your correction is spot on.)
Fair point - notlahtlacōl. “World” does seem more accurate.
I wouldn’t be surprised if modern Nahuatl varieties used tlālticpactli to refer to the planet itself. (Still, my example is from Classical Nahuatl, so your correction is spot on.)