νόστος (νέομαι): return, return home;
νόστου γαίης Φαιήκων, a
reaching the land of the Phaeacians (γαίης, obj. gen.), without the notion of
‘returning,’ except in so far as a man who had
been swimming as long as Odysseus had to swim would feel as if he had
got back somewhere when he touched dry land, Od. 5.344.