Urheimat

[ oor-hahy-maht; German oor-hahy-maht ]

noun

1. the primeval habitation of a people, especially the prehistoric homeland of the speakers of a protolanguage.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Urheimat¹

1930–35; < German, equivalent to ur- ur- ³ + Heimat home, homeland

Example Sentences

But since this date, there has been a shifting of the "Urheimat" further and further west.

From Project Gutenberg