homewards

English

From Middle English homwardes, hamwardes, from Old English hāmweardes, equivalent to home +‎ -wards. Cognate with Dutch heimwaarts, German heimwärts (“homewards”).

homewards (not comparable)

Of or pertaining to leading toward home.
At the end of the day we gratefully set off in a homewards direction.

leading toward home

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)

homewards

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