hiraeth

'''''' () is a Welsh word for a type of longing or homesickness for Wales, particularly with a nostalgic character.

==Etymology== Derived from 'long' and (a nominal suffix creating an abstract noun from an adjective), the word is literally equivalent to English 'longing'. A less likely, but possible, etymology is 'long' + 'pain, grief, sorrow, longing'. In the earliest citations in early Welsh poetry it implies 'grief or longing after the loss or death of someone'.