One way to hold this word: the door opens and the person who has been away for a long time is standing there. The word is not the journey and not the address — it is that arrival, and everything gathered around it: the cooking started two days early, the sign with the name, the neighbours looking out. Change what counts as home and the word travels with you.
From the word’s history
Middle English hom-comyng, from home + coming, probably reshaped from Old English hāmcyme "homecoming, return" — so the parts have always been exactly home and coming.
這個字在中古英語寫成 hom-comyng，就是 home 加 coming；更早在古英語裡是 hāmcyme，意思就是「回家、歸來」。也就是說，它從頭到尾就是把「家」和「回來」黏在一起，今天的用法還是同一個畫面。
Wiktionary entry for homecoming, etymology section supplied in the evidence packet: "From Middle English hom-comyng ... equivalent to home + coming. Probably an alteration of earlier Middle English hom-come ... from Old English hāmcyme."
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