'Earthling', before the sci-fi era, had somewhat the same connotations as 'troglodyte', an lesser, earthy person (see the etymonline provenance as in mplungjan's answer). This is what …

The first earthling in space was a dog. What about Mars or Venus. marsling? venusling? I am looking for a word for an inhabitant of Mars (and another word for the inhabitant of Venus) that …

Vulcan, Earthling, and Venusian are all adjectives derived from the proper nouns Vulcan Earth, and Venus. Human is not a proper noun, any more the elf, dwarf, people, or purple-people …

Mar 13, 2015 · As @nohat posted, "Earthling" tends to be a common term. Science fiction has come up with others, such as "Terran" (using the Latin root, terra). As society actually makes it …

Sep 1, 2010 · At the beginning of a sentence is obvious. I'm referring to the following examples: A handful of earth. The earth under this house. The earth beneath my feet. What on earth? The …

Oct 14, 2015 · This is in part from PIE _(dh)ghomon_-, literally "earthling, earthly being," as opposed to the gods (see homunculus)*. Compare Hebrew adam "man," from adamah …

– Earthling Commented Jun 3, 2011 at 17:51 On a similar vein, I (and other Eastern Canadains / Ontarians) swear that we learned to spell dilemma as 'dilemna'.

According to the most official source we have in English, the dictionary, both pronunciations are valid. The pronunciation of a borrowed word in the originating language has no bearing on the …

Feb 9, 2011 · That's an interesting theory but it's quite wrong. 1st declension nouns ending in -a can be feminine OR masculine (e.g. agricola, nauta), and -a is also the plural ending in 2nd, …