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- German Wasser: water
- water-born: all people are swept up and carried by the stream of history
- water born → HCE as incubating foetus ("O, foetal sleep! Ah, fatal slip" - 563.10).
- the River Waterbourne in England
- the River Bourne in the English county of Wiltshire, a tributary of the River Avon
