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German
Etymology
From Middle Low German wēmōt, perhaps a backformation from wēmōdich, whence German wehmütig. Analysable as Weh (“woe”) + Mut (“mood, emotional state”). The feminine under influence of the rhyming word Demut (“humbleness”, from Middle High German demüete) or other feminines ending with -mut (like Großmut, Schwermut). From Middle Low German also continental Scandinavian vemod. Dutch weemoed is native but semantically influenced by the German.
Pronunciation
Noun
Wehmut f (genitive Wehmut, no plural)
- melancholia, nostalgia, wistfulness (yearning for the past, homesickness)
2005 September 15, Matti Lieske, “Erinnerung an ein Horrorjahr”, in Berliner Zeitung:Dennoch wird manch ein Spieler oder Offizieller von Hertha BSC in diesen Tagen Wehmut verspüren und schweren Herzens an den letzten Bundesligaauftritt der vergangenen Spielzeit denken.- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
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