English
Etymology
From Middle English homwardes, hamwardes, from Old English hāmweardes, equivalent to home + -wards. Cognate with Dutch heimwaarts, German heimwärts (“homewards”).
Adjective
homewards (not comparable)
- Of or pertaining to leading toward home.
- At the end of the day we gratefully set off in a homewards direction.
Translations
leading toward home
- Belarusian: дадо́му (dadómu)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 回家 (zh) (huíjiā)
- Czech: domů (cs)
- Dutch: heemwaarts, huiswaarts (nl)
- Faroese: heim
- Finnish: kotiin (fi), kotiin päin, kotia kohti
- French: à la maison (fr)
- German: nach Hause, heim (de), heimwärts (de)
- Hebrew: הביתה (he) (habáyta)
- Hungarian: hazafelé (hu), haza (hu)
- Irish: abhaile
- Japanese: 家へ向かって (うちへむかって, uchi e mukatte)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: (adverb) hjemover
- Old Norse: heim
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- Penobscot: wigwomwok
- Polish: do domu
- Portuguese: para casa
- Romansch: a chasa (Rumantsch Grischun, Vallader), a casa (Sursilvan), a tgea, a tgeasa (Sutsilvan), a tgesa (Surmiran), a chesa (Puter)
- Russian: восвоя́си (ru) (vosvojási), домо́й (ru) (domój)
- Scots: hame-throu
- Scottish Gaelic: dhachaigh
- Serbo-Croatian: кући, kući (sh)
- Slovak: domov (sk)
- Slovene: domôv (sl)
- Swedish: hemåt (sv)
- Turkish: eve (tr)
- Ukrainian: додо́му (dodómu)
- Welsh: adref (cy), adre
- Yiddish: אַהיים (aheym)
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Adverb
homewards
- towards home
- We're now heading homewards.
