Erde from erde

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  • Erde: (German) earth
  • ashes to ashes, dust to dust: from the Order for the Burial of the Dead
  • from ear to ear
  • Erda: primeval Norse goddess, Mother Earth, according to Jacob Grimm (German Mythology); a character in Richard Wagner's operatic tetralogy Der Ring des Nibelungen
  • merde: (French) shit → said by Cambronne, the last surviving French officer on the field of Waterloo, when invited to surrender