[Lexicog] Equivalents for German "Heimat"

[Marco Baroni]

Dear Fritz,

I hope you did not get the impression that I'm suggesting that one should
avoid the words Heimat or patria. I was just being descriptive, stating
the connotations that it has for me and my colleague (not because of a
precise ideological standing, but simply out of collocational power or
something like that, I guess...)

> By the way, where are you from in Italy (if you are Italian)?
> Would you call the place where you were born and maybe grew up
> "terra natia"?

I am from Bolzano/Bozen, at the boundary with Austria (so, a Heimat
besides a patria ;-) ), and no, I would never call it a terra natia,
because that term is archaic ("lougo di nascita" sounds too bureaucratic,
"terra natale" too solemn -- I guess I would simply say "la mia citta'"
(my city/town), which is a term I would never use for the place where I
live.)

Regards,

Marco


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