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Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

ostalgia

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
os-tal-gia
IPA
9
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Synonym of ostealgia.

Uncountable

noun

German nostalgia for the era of East Germany.

Uncountable

Etymology

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃ésth₁ Ancient Greek ὀστέον (ostéon)der. English osteo- English -algia English ostalgia From osteo- + -algia.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

ostalgias (plural)

Synonyms

ostealgia

Questions

What does ostalgia mean?
Synonym of ostealgia.
Where does ostalgia come from?
It is traced to German.

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