Every language on the cloud named the planet from something it could already see: dirt, a ball, the space under the sky, the light, a mother, an age of men. Each thread below is one of those namings, followed across tongues. Pick one and the cloud re-arranges to show it.
A nube — a cloud — of the words for our planet. Build 1, 7 September 2026, for the Living Language Loom+.
Every word for Earth, world and globe that could be gathered in one pass — 893 words across 442 languages, living, classical and constructed — laid out as a cloud. Colour is the speaker's stream in the Loom's eight dyes (classical languages wear the dye of their heirs; constructed languages and scientific designations are undyed). Size is speakers of the language, log-scaled, with a prestige floor for the classical register so Latin, Greek, Sanskrit and Classical Chinese stay legible.
Earth (planet, 290 entries), world (the Earth · inhabited planet · collective human experience · the universe), globe (planet Earth). Raw wikitext, parsed from the {{t}} templates; qualifiers, genders and duplicate case-variants dropped.(contested) in the text.Root is cognate descent — words that are historically one word (Земля · zamīn · humus). Meaning is the literal image the word carries whatever its ancestry (a ball; under the sky; an age of men). Two words can share a meaning and not a root (свет and világ) or a root and not a meaning (loka 'light' → lok 'the people'). The ball-words are a meaning treated as a root because they are one event: the round earth arriving in a language and being named.
Speaker figures are order-of-magnitude (L1+L2, 2020s, Ethnologue-class); they size the words, they are not claims. Extinct and classical languages are given a fixed display size rather than zero.
build.py against a direct API pull before external publication.(contested); folk etymologies (medinī, ʻāina) are labelled traditional. No entry should be quoted as settled scholarship without checking the cited reference.EarthWordNube-v1.csv) into the Loom's data contract so each word becomes a bead with a first-attestation year — the ball-words alone would draw the spread of the round earth 1600→1930 across the streams.