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Welsh word hiraeth comes from Proto-Celtic *sīr-axto-, and later Proto-Brythonic *hiraɨθ (Nostalgia, longing, yearning, homesickness.)

*sīr-axto- (Proto-Celtic)

*hiraɨθ (Proto-Brythonic)

Nostalgia, longing, yearning, homesickness.

hiraeth (Welsh)

An intense form of longing or nostalgia, wistfulness. Homesickness for a home to which you cannot return, or for a home which may have never been. The grief for the lost places of your past.

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