Name of world.

[Athelassan]

Nah, it's Charlemange, so called because he ate Charles.

[Hideous Loon]

I do believe that Athelassan wins this thread.

On-topic: Who's asking? Why do they want to know? Will they settle for "[Country Name Here]" or "Neville"? What's wrong with "Earth"? It's what we (as in, western civilisation) call it, and what both Terra and Tellus mean.

[Poseidal]

Just having it called the world adds more credence to the setting.

[kramplarv]

Charlemagne, geez, CharlemaGNe.

bah, humbug. In my language it would be Karl den store, in englis, Karl/Charles the Great. You should be grateful that I at least try to use a more french version.

[Urgat]

I would, if, as Athelassan pointed out, "Charlemange" didn't somewhat mean something quite absurd (though it quite simply means "charle is eating", well if you put a space between charle and mange).

[Hapimeses]

Interesting. A planet per deity perhaps?

That wasn't the original intention. There was to be 10 planets, with the Warhammer World as the third planet, marked as 'The Blessed Place' in Eltharin. I wrote a section describing this for the Tome of Salvation, and drafted a map, but both were removed from the book at the last moment. The words edited out can be found in a secluded corner of my website here, in a thread containing extras from the ToS.

As for the original topic's question: the Warhammer World is, iirc, never officially named, though is referred to as 'The World', with a capital, in a couple of older products. In my personal games, the Warhammer World is called 'Erde', which is just German for 'Earth'; quite fitting, I think.

[Urgat]

Mmh, I got that picture with the planets... well, somewhere.

Anyway, to answer the OP, I grew a pair and I swent and asked members of the different races. Here's what I got for answers.

Empire: "Erde" (stole that from Hapimeses )
Bretonnia: "Le Monde"
Ogres: "the Snack"
Beastmen: "the Loo"
High Elves: "OUR World.
Dark Elves: -No, OUR World!"
Vampires: "The Maggotmound"
Tomb Kings: "The Boring Places"
Warriors of Chaos: "the Prize"
Skavens: "the Gruyere, yes-yes"
Orcs and Goblins: "Da Amuz'ment park"
Wood Elves: "the Outside"
Demons: "Giz Skrsszpbdbd"
The Lizardmen: "..."
The Dwarfs: "grmmf, you're two milleniums early to ask us that, beardling. Come back when you've grown some hair on your elbows."

Thank you to all of them for their nice cooperation and, her... thank you to the High Elf for his perfume, I'm sure I'll find a use for it.

[Harry]

Nicely done.

[Crymson]

I'll second that I thought it was 'Warhammer'. I do remember seeing that somewhere, but cannot recall.

[mojo jojo]

is earth = dirth a british english thing?

In america, we never use the word earth for dirth.

[Lord Zarkov]

is earth = dirth a british english thing?

In america, we never use the word earth for dirth.

earth with a small 'e' is used quite often in Britain as a synonym for soil, both in a gardening context, and in a few expressions

[Urgat]

Dirth? Wordreference doesn't even give me a hit for that word. Is that a slang compression between earth and dirt? You might want to check again anyway, mojo jojo, not telling you how you speak in your own country, but I've watched quite a few (hundred) Hollywood movies, and expressions like working the earth (farm stuff) certainly pop up once in a while.

[Minty]

The High Elves (and presumably, othher Elves too) call the world the 'Fated Place'. they likely don't care what the lesser races call it, though it seems likely the Elven name may also be used by the Empire, given that they learned astronomy/astromancy from the Elves.

[RobC]

Early maps are labelled "The Known World". By third edition "The Warhammer World" was used, but there's no suggestion this is a term used by its inhabitants.

Back on the old WFRP Mailing List in the 90s, there was a suggestion (by Anthony Ragan IIRC) that the world was named Warhammer after the last Slann ship to get through the warp gates before they collapsed. I've never seen anything official on this, though.