Erde

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German word Erde comes from Proto-Indo-European *or-, Old English ēar, and later Proto-Germanic *erþō (Earth.)

*or- (Proto-Indo-European)

ēar (Old English)

*ert- (Proto-Indo-European)

aurahjons (Gothic)

*h₁er- (Proto-Indo-European)

*erþō (Proto-Germanic)

Earth.

erda (Old High German)

(astronomy) The Earth. Earth, ground, soil.

Erde (German)

(countable) a world; a space to live in. (uncountable) soil. (uncountable) the ground the planet Earth.

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