hiraeth

== Welsh == === Etymology === 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. === Pronunciation === (North Wales, standard, colloquial) IPA(key): /ˈhɪraɨ̯θ/ (North Wales, colloquial) IPA(key): /ˈhɪrɛθ/ (South Wales, standard) IPA(key): /ˈhiːrai̯θ/, /ˈhɪrai̯θ/ (South Wales, colloquial) IPA(key): /ˈhiːrɛθ/, /ˈhɪrɛθ/ === Noun === hiraeth m (plural hiraethau or hiraethion, not mutable) 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 ==== Related terms ==== hiraethu (“to long for”) ==== See also ==== Portuguese saudade === References === https://www.definitions.net/definition/hiraeth Williams, Robert (1865), “hiraeth”, in Lexicon Cornu-Britannicum: A Dictionary of the Ancient Celtic Language of Cornwall, in which the Words are elucidated by Copious Examples from the Cornish Works now remaining; With Translations in English​, London: Trubner & Co., page 217 http://geiriadur.bangor.ac.uk/#Hiraeth https://web.archive.org/web/20210518155138/https://geiriadur.uwtsd.ac.uk/index.php?page=ateb&term=Hiraeth&direction=we&type=all&whichpart=exact&search=#ateb_top