#dry land

[wallflowerstudio]

Three Kittens in a Boat - by Louis Wain, ca 1923

[mother-lee]

sumter & everywhere

[fanniballecter]

Marillion - Dry Land - H focus

[lemonlimekodkod]

[wiirocku]

Nehemiah 9:11 (NLT) - You divided the sea for Your people so they could walk through on dry land! And then You hurled their enemies into the depths of the sea. They sank like stones beneath the mighty waters.

[somethingusefulfromflorida]

The mer prefix in mermaid comes from the Old English mere meaning lake or small body of water, which shares the same Proto-Indo-European root as the Latin mare meaning sea, which gives us maritime and marine.

The word Earth comes from the Old English eorþe which means dirt, ground, dry land, the surface upon which we walk (compare to modern Germanic languages; Danish jorden, Dutch aarde, German Erde, Icelandic jörð, Norwegian and Swedish jord)

It's entirely possible that mermaids would refer to surface dwellers as something along the lines of yormaids, ertmaids, or ardmaids, assuming they spoke human languages which underwent identical linguistic shifts.

Ardfolk, ardpeople, ardmaids, ardmen, they who walk upon the land above

[admiraltx]

Farminsumbitchainti

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

The Waters Prevailed Upon the Earth a Hundred and Fifty Days

22 All in whose nostrils was the breath of life, of all that was in the dry land, died.

23 And every living thing was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark. — Genesis 7:22-23 | King James 2000 Bible (KJB2K) The King James 2000 Bible, copyright © Doctor of Theology Robert A. Couric 2000, 2003. All rights reserved. Cross References: Genesis 1:25; Genesis 2:7; Matthew 24:38-39; Luke 17:26-27; Hebrews 11:7; 1 Peter 3:20; 2 Peter 2:5