homeward

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhoʊmwɚd/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhəʊmwəd/

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Etymology 1

From Middle English homward, from Old English hāmweard, from Proto-Germanic *haimawarda, equivalent to home +‎ -ward. Cognate with Dutch heimwaarts, German heimwärts (“homeward”).

Alternative forms

• homewards

Adverb

homeward (not comparable)

1. Towards home.

   I am homeward bound.

   • 1864, Alfred Tennyson, “Enoch Arden”, in Enoch Arden, &c., London: Edward Moxon & Co., […], →OCLC, pages 36–37:

     There Enoch spoke no word to any one, / But homeward—home—what home? had he a home? / His home, he walk'd.

Translations

towards home

• Afrikaans: huiswaarts
• Belarusian: дадо́му (dadómu)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 回家 (zh) (huíjiā)

• Czech: domů (cs)
• Dutch: heemwaarts, huiswaarts (nl)
• Esperanto: hejmen (eo)
• Faroese: heim
• Finnish: kotiin (fi), kotiin päin, kotia kohti
• French: à la maison (fr)
• German: nach Hause (de), heim (de), heimwärts (de)
• Greek:

  Ancient: οἴκαδε (oíkade), (Epic) δόμονδε (dómonde)

• Hebrew: הביתה (he) (habáyta)
• Hungarian: haza (hu), hazafelé (hu)
• Irish: abhaile
• Japanese: 家へ向かって (うちへむかって, uchi e mukatte)
• Old Norse: heim
• Penobscot: wigwomwok
• Plautdietsch: nohus
• Polish: do domu, do dóm (regional, dialectal)
• Portuguese: para casa
• Romansch: a chasa (Rumantsch Grischun, Vallader), a casa (Sursilvan), a tgea, a tgeasa (Sutsilvan), a tgesa (Surmiran), a chesa (Puter)
• Russian: домо́й (ru) (domój), восвоя́си (ru) (vosvojási)
• Scots: hame-throu
• Scottish Gaelic: dhachaigh
• Serbo-Croatian: кући, kući (sh)
• Slovak: domov (sk)
• Slovene: domôv (sl)
• Spanish: a casa
• Swedish: hemåt (sv)
• Ukrainian: додо́му (dodómu)
• Welsh: adref (cy), adre
• Yiddish: אַהיים (aheym)

Etymology 2

From Middle English homward, from the adverb (see above).

Adjective

homeward (not comparable)

1. oriented towards home

   I caught a homeward bus.

Translations

oriented towards home

• Finnish: kotiin menevä
• Russian: направля́ющийся домо́й (napravljájuščijsja domój), к до́му (k dómu)

Middle English

Adverb

homeward

1. Alternative form of homward