The word nomad comes from the Latin nomas, -ădis, which in turn comes from the Greek νομάς, -άδος. For some reason that only intuition can understand, nomad seems to be close to the root of nostalgia (νόστος, ‘returning home’, –algia); however, the ‘no’ in nomad is not a probable node in the nostalgic stem. Nevertheless, the omen of returning home is always looming in a nomad’s future, as if it were the shadow of the word’s meaning. For that reason, nomads tend towards an odd form of nostalgia.