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fatherland

noun

Etymology

From father + land. Compare Dutch vaderland (“fatherland”), German Vaterland (“fatherland”), Danish fædreland (“fatherland”), Icelandic föðurland (“fatherland”).

  1. derived from *lendʰ-✻
  2. inherited from *landą✻
  3. inherited from *land✻
  4. inherited from land
  5. inherited from lond
  6. compounded as fatherland — “father + land”

Definitions

  1. The country of one's ancestors.

  2. The country of one's birth, origin.

The neighborhood

Derived

fatherlandish

Vish — recursive loop

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA