English

geosphere

From geo- + -sphere.

Formed from geo + sphere

Old Norse gjá ‘chasm, rift, crack’

Norn gjo ‘an inlet, gully or cleft in a rocky coast,…’

English geo

Proto-Indo-European *sperH- ‘to kick, rebound, move convulsively’

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Latin sphaera ‘ball, globe, celestial sphere’

Late Latin sphēra

Old French sphere ‘sphere (shape)’

Middle English spere ‘the cosmos, outer space’

Today it means

noun The solid body of the Earth.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / geosphere