homeling

English

Etymology

home +‎ -ling

Noun

homeling (plural homelings)

  1. (obsolete) A native; a person or thing belonging to a home or to a particular country; an inhabitant.
    • Trench
      […] that one writer will still deal with a word as a stranger, and lead us to suppose it so. while another, who wrote earlier, had already treated it as an homeling.

References
  • homeling in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
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