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   Placeholder name

   It most probably comes from a dialectal word meaning "mud". ... Tal when used with another word means "something".
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   Planet

   The name originates from the 8th century Anglo-Saxon word erda, which means ground or soil and was first used in writing as the name of the sphere of the Earth perhaps around 1300.
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   Earth

   The name Earth was derived from the Anglo-Saxon word erda, which means ground or soil.
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   List of country name etymologies

   From two of the country's principal languages, meaning "land of upright people", "land of honest men" or "land of the incorruptible" (Burkina from the More language and Faso from Dioula). ... The word mali means "hippopotamus" in Malinké and Bamana.
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   Gondor

   The word means "land of stone", and is echoed in the text of The Lord of the Rings by the name for Gondor among the Rohirrim, Stoningland. ... Middle-earth realms
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   Earth in culture

   The name Earth originates from the 8th century Anglo-Saxon word erda, which means ground or soil.
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   List of placenames of indigenous origin in the Americas

   Euchee Old Fields (ceremonial planting ground) ... Waushara County - a Native American word meaning good earth.
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   List of etymologies of country subdivision names

   Surabaya: sura means "shark" and baya means "crocodile". ... Siberia: from a Tatar word meaning "sleeping land"
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   Dubbo, New South Wales

   A popular current theory is the word means "red earth," consistent with the local landscape.
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    Hindustan

    The term Hindustan has also been applied to the whole Indian subcontinent. ... Literally, the word means land of the Hindus.

Explore the following pages on Powerset:

• Placeholder name,
• Planet,
• Earth,
• List of country name etymologies,
• Gondor,
• Earth in culture,
• List of placenames of indigenous origin in the Americas,
• List of etymologies of country subdivision names,
• Dubbo, New South Wales,
• Hindustan