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Who gave the sun its name?

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∙ 16y ago
Updated: 8/17/2019

It also comes from the saxon word ertha, the saxon/germanic/dutch
goddess of the earth. But the really truth is that nobody can really tell who
first named the sun and how or why
It comes from Old Irish

word "lighting up

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