motherland

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The country where you were born or where your family comes from.

   After years abroad, she finally returned to her motherland.

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr Proto-Germanic *mōdēr Proto-West Germanic *mōder Old English mōdor Middle English moder English mother English land English motherland From mother + land.

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