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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=343434611-05062005></SPAN>H<SPAN
class=343434611-05062005><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3>ans
Muhammad,</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=343434611-05062005></SPAN></FONT></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=343434611-05062005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3>Your name is most interesting: German and
Arabic.</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=343434611-05062005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3>So is what you say about Kheimat. Only I would
be very surprized if there were any</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><FONT size=2><SPAN class=343434611-05062005><FONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=3>connection between Arabic Kheimat and German
Heimat.The origin of the German word</FONT></SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff><SPAN class=343434611-05062005>is
according to Grimm's dictionary:</SPAN></FONT></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff><SPAN
class=343434611-05062005></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Tahoma><SPAN
class=343434611-05062005><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><FONT
color=#800000>Heimat; <SPAN class=343434611-05062005>Old High
German</SPAN>. heimoti; <SPAN class=343434611-05062005>Middle High
German</SPAN>. heimôte, heimote<SPAN class=343434611-05062005>, </SPAN>heimôt,
heimuôt </FONT></SPAN></I></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><SPAN class=343434611-05062005><I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"></SPAN></I><FONT color=#800000><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><SPAN class=343434611-05062005>The
</SPAN>Staatslexikon (Herder-Verlag; Sp. 1235) <SPAN
class=343434611-05062005>points to the common germanic root
</SPAN></SPAN><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica">heim
</SPAN></I></FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma><SPAN class=343434611-05062005><FONT
color=#800000><I><SPAN style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica">(s<SPAN
class=343434611-05062005>ee related </SPAN>engl.
home); </SPAN></I></FONT><FONT color=#800000><I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><SPAN class=343434611-05062005>word stem</SPAN>:
heimüete, heimot </SPAN></I><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"> </SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><FONT color=#800000><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><EM></EM></SPAN></FONT> </P>
<P style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in"><FONT color=#800000><SPAN
style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><FONT face=Arial color=#0000ff>Fritz
Goerling</FONT></P>
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class=343434611-05062005></SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT face=Tahoma><SPAN
class=343434611-05062005><FONT face=Arial
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style="FONT-FAMILY: Helvetica"><EM></EM></SPAN></FONT> </P>
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class=343434611-05062005><EM></EM></SPAN></SPAN></FONT> </P>
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<DIV>Hello dear LEXICOGRAPHERS:</DIV>
<DIV>The German word Heimat reminds me of the word
<EM><U><STRONG>Kheimat</STRONG></U></EM> or
<EM><STRONG><U>Khema</U></STRONG></EM> "tent". For a desert dweller,
this means his home, homeland, beloved home... etc.</DIV>
<DIV>A more nationalistic word used nowadays is
<EM><U><STRONG>watan</STRONG>.</U></EM><STRONG> </STRONG>(
<STRONG><EM><U>t</U></EM></STRONG> , here, is an emphatic
consonant).</DIV>
<DIV>A more sentimenal word is:<STRONG><EM><U> balad</U></EM></STRONG>.
</DIV>
<DIV>Regards</DIV>
<DIV><A
href="mailto:Muhammadmh2002@yahoo.com">Muhammadmh2002@yahoo.com</A><BR><BR><B><EM>apa
mapa <apamag@yahoo.com></EM></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq
style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">
<DIV>I have lived in Thailand. My language for "hometown" is
"ºéÒ¹à¡Ô´"(ba:n-kert) or "ºéÒ¹à¡Ô´àÁ×ͧ¹Í¹" (ba:n-kert-muang-no:n). If you
would like to say "home", you have to say "ºéÒ¹" (ba:n)</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>Regards,</DIV>
<DIV>Phornpimon <BR><BR><B><I>Fritz Goerling
<Fritz_Goerling@sil.org></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq
style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid"><TT>I
am looking for equivalents in other languages for German<BR>"Heimat" in
its sentimental sense. "Heimat" in German can <BR>mean one's home
country, one's "fatherland, homeland" <BR>(speakers of other languages
refer to their "motherland"). <BR>In its sentimental sense one can
paraphrase the concept as <BR>a safe haven, a familiar, comfortable,
tranquil place,<BR>a place where one feels loved." <BR>English "home"
comes the closest to German "Heimat" in <BR>expressions like "home is
where the heart hurts." Or<BR>"Wo ist deine Heimat?" can be translated
into English<BR>by "Where is home for you?" (although German "Heim"
and<BR>English "home" are also equivalents in a more
concrete<BR>sense).<BR><BR>Fritz Goerling<BR><BR></TT></BLOCKQUOTE>
<P>Send instant messages to your online friends
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