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Re: Father/Motherland

From:FFlores <fflores@...>
Date:Tuesday, May 23, 2000, 22:11
Carlos Eugenio Thompson (EDC) <EDCCET@...> wrote:

>In Spanish the word is _patria_ with shows it relationship with _padre_ >(father). Then I thing it could count as a fatherland language.
Yes, but _patria_ is feminine, and it's also common to say _la madre patria_. There's no masculine equivalent (_país natal_ could be, but it's much weaker). --Pablo Flores http://www.geocities.com/pablo-david/index.html "... When all men on earth think, day and night, about the Zahir, which one will be a dream and which one a reality?" Jorge Luis Borges, _The Zahir_