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Heimweh
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English
Etymology
en :bor de:Heimweh + 1
Noun
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en uncountable rare Homesickness.
en Harry Davids; Tom Springer Christmas Sorrows Alfred Holman w:The Argonaut San Francisco, Calif. Argonaut Publishing Company 12 December 1908 LXIII 1655 397 https://books.google.com/books?id=0qRTHlpE3dUC&pg=PA397 1 33214557 For the long trail stretched before us, for we heard the call, / Left the hearthstone and the homeland, felt the rover's thrall; / Wandered to the far horizon, sought the joy of life— / Now the wanderlust is waning, heimweh now is rife.
en Emotions
German
Etymology
de :af Heim Weh
de Heim Weh. Originally a medical term in Switzerland. Cognate to gsw Häiwee, bar Haimweh Upper Austrian, nds Heimweih.
Pronunciation
de /ˈhaɪ̯mˌveː/
de De-Heimweh.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
de Heim weh
Noun
n,(e)s.sg
homesickness
de Fernweh
de w:Bernhard Schlink Die Heimkehr 2006 Diogenes 978-3-257-06510-7 64 https://archive.org/details/dieheimkehrroman0000schl/page/64/mode/1up In die Herzen der Kameraden wehen Heimweh und Fernweh, und die Männer seufzen, seufzen in wohliger Sehnsucht.
Declension
n,(e)s.sg
Related terms
de Nostalgie
Descendants
1 da hjemve
1 nl heimwee
en Heimweh<bor> homesickness<clq>
1 nds-de Heemweh
1 la-new nostalgia
1 fr nostalgie
Further reading
de Emotions