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In the narrow sense, kababayan means a fellow from the same town. However, it is often used in a much broader sense to mean countrymen or compatriots, especially by overseas Filipinos , OFWs , and connotes respect for each other’s commitment to unity because of their common cultural , political , and religious background from the same "bayan ...
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears" is the first line of a speech by Mark Antony in the play Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare. Occurring in Act III, scene II, it is one of the most famous lines in all of Shakespeare's works.
Lincoln for his part took Seward's draft of the closing and gave it a more poetic, lyrical tone, making changes such as revising Seward's "I close. We are not, we must not be aliens or enemies but fellow countrymen and brethren" to "I am loath to close. We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies." [9]
The people seem to have called themselves *Cumbri the same way that the Welsh called themselves Cymry (most likely from reconstructed Brittonic *kom-brogī meaning "fellow countrymen"). The Welsh and the Cumbric-speaking people of what are now southern Scotland and northern England probably felt they were actually one ethnic group.
The modern Welsh name Cymru is the Welsh name for Wales, while the name for the Welsh people is Cymry.These words (both of which are pronounced ) are descended from the Brythonic word combrogi, meaning "fellow-countrymen" or a "compatriot".
The original European meaning of patriots applied to anyone who was a fellow countryman regardless of the socio-economic status. [3] The use of patriotism and nationalism originally shared a similar meaning in the 19th century, but their use and connotation gradually grown apart.
These words (both of which are pronounced Welsh pronunciation:) are descended from the Brythonic word kombrogi, meaning "fellow-countrymen". [20] Thus, they carry a sense of "land of fellow-countrymen", "our country", and notions of fraternity.
The name Nostratic derives from the Latin word nostrās, meaning 'our fellow-countryman' (plural: nostrates) and has been defined, since Pedersen, as consisting of those language families that are related to Indo-European. [8]