Difference between revisions of "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
