wistfulness, melancholy, nostalgia, longing; a feeling of missing someone or something
çekim: çoğul doruri · tamlayan dorului
köken: From Late Latin dolus (“pain, grief”), a derivative of Latin dolor (“pain”). Compare Portuguese dó (“sorrow, compassion”), Spanish duelo (“sorrow, mourning”), French deuil (“bereavement”).
wistfulness; nostalgia; longing; homesickness; a deep feeling of yearning for something, someone or somewhere · longing for a romanticized ideal of Wales or Welsh culture · regret
çekim: çoğul hiraethau
köken: From Proto-Brythonic *hiraɨθ, from Proto-Celtic *sīraxto-, akin to Gaulish siraxta (“longing”). Compare Cornish hireth, Breton hiraezh, and Old Irish sírecht. By surface analysis, hir + -aeth.
Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese soydade (13ᵗʰ century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), from Latin sōlitātem (“solitude”). For the unexpected phonetic development, see Portuguese saudade.