English
maladie du pays
Maladie du pays comes from French maladie du pays ‘homesickness’.
- Frenchc. 1600–presentmaladie du pays‘homesickness’
- Englishearliest quotation 1816same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- Frenchc. 1600–presentmaladie du pays‘homesickness’
- Englishearliest quotation 1816same form
Earliest quotation: 1816, – 1817 April/May, Frankenstein; or: “I felt a wish for happiness and thought with…”
Every English word from French maladie du pays
Today it means
noun Homesickness.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / French maladie du pays / maladie du pays