Timeline for How is the emotional concept of "home" expressed in French?
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| May 7, 2016 at 1:44 | comment | added | D Walch | @Anne Aunyme You have a very good point. When I was writing my lines, I felt that the link to the father or mother was more direct in German or English than French. I guess I do not think in Latin to feel such a connection, but you do ! | |
| May 4, 2016 at 8:04 | comment | added | Anne Aunyme | "patrie" definitely refers to the father, it's from the latin "pater", which means... "father". "Foyer" means literaly "a place where there is a fire", so if that doesn't describe the warmth of a house, I don't know what does it. | |
| May 3, 2016 at 12:44 | history | answered | D Walch | CC BY-SA 3.0 |