祖国愛

そこくあい

patriotism

祖国復帰

そこくふっき

returning to one's fatherland

祖国戦争

そこくせんそう

Patriotic War (Russian name for the war with Napoleon in 1812)

大祖国戦争

だいそこくせんそう

Great Patriotic War (Russian name for the war along the eastern front during World War II)

祖

そ

ancestor, forefather, progenitor

祖父祖母

じじばば

old people

教祖

きょうそ

founder of a religious sect

祖廟

そびょう

mausoleum containing the remains of one's ancestors

同祖

どうそ

common ancestor

祖語

そご

parent language

祖霊

それい

ancestral spirit, collective of ancestral spirits which have lost their individualities

祖述

そじゅつ

exposition (propagation) of one's master's teachings or doctrines

先祖

せんぞ

ancestor

真祖

しんそ

true ancestor

鼻祖

びそ

founder, originator, introducer

祖先

そせん

ancestor

祖母

そぼ ばば おおば おば うば

grandmother

開祖

かいそ

(sect) founder, apostle, originator, inventor

太祖

たいそ

founder, progenitor, emperor