parentland

English edit

Etymology edit

From parent +‎ land.

Noun edit

parentland (plural parentlands)

The place where an ethnic group originated; the place from which a population immigrated.
- 1912, C[ornelis] P[etrus] Tiele, translated by G[ushtaspshah] K[aikhushro] Nariman, The Religion of the Iranian Peoples, part I, Bombay: “The Parsi” Publishing Co., page 102:
  The actual parentland of the Aryans, not the one confused with the paradise, is identified, with reason, with Atropatene (Atropatkan, Azerbaijan) on the south-west coast of the Caspian.
- 1942, T[homas] Walter Wallbank, Alastair M[acDonald] Taylor, Civilization—Past and Present, Scott, Foresman and Company, page 250:
  Perhaps the culture of New Zealand and Australia is more like that in the parentland than that in any other of the new Europes, because these settlements are isolated from other large masses of Europeans.
- 1968, William Sansom, A Book of Christmas, McGraw-Hill Book Company, →LCCN, page 90:
  What is more fascinating is the retention in some places of customs long disappeared from their European parentland – like the highlanders of the Ozark Mountains clinging to the date of Old Christmas Day in January which disappeared in England in the eighteenth century; […].
- 1978, Theodore Harold White, In Search of History: A Personal Adventure, Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 276:
  For the first two years after the war, only American gift and grant had financed the minimum needs of this European civilization, America’s parentland.
- 1989, Elizabeth Berry, “Behind Barbed Wire: The Japanese American Literature of Internment”, in Cordelia Candelaria, editor, Multiethnic Literature of the United States: Critical Introductions and Classroom Resources, University of Colorado at Boulder, page 45:
  Barred from citizenship and from comfortable participation in the life of the dominant culture, the issei gathered in communities where they maintained the culture of their parentland and largely spoke Japanese.
- 1994, J. B. Saleeby, R. C. Speed, M. C. Blake, “Tectonic evolution of the central U.S. Cordillera: A synthesis of the C1 and C2 Continent-Ocean Transects”, in Phanerozoic Evolution of North American Continent-Ocean Transitions, The Geological Society of America, →ISBN, page 331:
  Neither the parentland nor the nature of their common boundary is known for these highly contrasting terranes.