Remigrant
/ˌriːˈmɪɡrənt/noun
A person who migrates back to a place they previously left.
Did you know?Remigrant is built from Latin roots meaning “to move away” and “to go back across,” so the word already encodes a return journey before English ever touched it.
Etymological Timeline
Latin
Latin
migrare
“to move, to migrate”
Latin
Latin
re- + migrare
“to move back again; to return by migrating”
Late Latin
Latin
remigrāre
“to migrate back, return”
17th Century
English
remigrant
“one who returns by migration; a return migrant”
Modern English
English
remigrant
“a person who migrates back to a place they previously left”