Re: Father/Motherland

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).


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