Morriña
Etymology
From Galician (and used in Spanish), strongly associated with the Galician diaspora’s longing for the green northwest of Spain. Its origin is debated: it is often linked to “morrer” (to die) and to “morriña,” a wasting sickness of livestock, with the sense of a slow melancholy pining developing from that. Honest note: the emotional meaning may be a metaphorical extension of the animal-disease sense rather than a direct coinage.
noun · /moh-REE-nyah/
A deep, melancholy homesickness, especially for one’s native land when far from it.
What it names
The aching pull toward home felt by someone in exile or emigration — grief for a place rather than a person.
Example
Three winters in London and the morriña hit hardest whenever someone played Galician bagpipes.
Related idea
English homesickness names the same longing but sounds almost clinical; morriña carries a specifically Galician cultural weight of emigration and belonging that the plainer word lacks.