köken: Borrowed from New Latin nostalgia, from Ancient Greek νόστος (nóstos, “a return home”) + ἄλγος (álgos, “pain, suffering”), translating German Heimweh.
köken: Borrowed from New Latin nostalgia, coined from Ancient Greek νόστος (nóstos, “a return home”) + ἄλγος (álgos, “pain, suffering”) as a calque of German Heimweh.
köken: Ultimately from New Latin nostalgia, coined from Ancient Greek νόστος (nóstos, “returning home”) + ἄλγος (álgos, “pain”), translating German Heimweh.
köken: Borrowed from French nostalgie, which via New Latin nostalgia represents a calque of German Heimweh, whence also the direct Dutch calque heimwee (“homesickness”).
wistfulness, melancholy, nostalgia, yearning, longing; the feeling of missing something or someone
çekim: çoğul saudades
köken: First attested in the 16th century, from an alteration of Old Galician-Portuguese soydade, from Latin sōlitātem (“solitude”). Both the semantic and phonetic developments are readily explained by assuming influence by Arabic سَوْدَاء (sawdāʔ, “melancholy”, literally “black bile”). Other possible factors are influence from saudar (“to wish good health”) and saudade (“salvation”) or learned…
nostalgia, homesickness · nostalgia (bittersweet yearning for the things of the past)
çekim: çoğul νοσταλγίες · tamlayan νοσταλγίας
köken: Learned borrowing from French nostalgie, from New Latin nostalgia; a neoclassical compound coined from Ancient Greek νόστ(ος) (nóst(os), “journey”) + ἄλγ(ος) (álg(os), “pain”) + suffix -ία (-ía).
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.