Esperanto · 7 September 2026
A word a day week
hejmo
HEJ-mo · /ˈhejmo/ · noun
- home
Home and Heim meet in hejmo, which names home as a place or idea rather than merely a building.
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Where it came from
GermanicHeim / home
Esperantohejmo
The root draws on the Germanic set represented by German Heim and English home; Esperanto writes j for the glide in hej.
- German Heim
- English home
Tiny sentence
Mia hejmo estas ĉi tie.
my home be.PRS here
“My home is here.”
The possessive mia agrees as an adjective, and ĉi tie means ‘here’.
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Sources and cautions
Several familiar Germanic forms converge here. The card therefore names a source family rather than insisting on a single donor.