Homeling

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A native; a person or thing belonging to a home or to a particular country; an inhabitant. obsolete

    "[…] that one writer will still deal with a word as a stranger, and lead us to suppose it so. while another, who wrote earlier, had already treated it as an homeling."

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nativenative

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"[…] that one writer will still deal with a word as a stranger, and lead us to suppose it so. while another, who wrote earlier, had already treated it as an homeling."

Etymology

From home + -ling.

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