west
Bedeutung (English)
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- The direction opposite to that of the earth's rotation, specifically 270°.
- The western region or area; the inhabitants thereof.
- In a church: the direction of the gallery, opposite to the altar, and opposite to the direction faced by the priest when celebrating ad orientem.
Konzepte
W West
westlicher Teil
westliche Welt
Europa und die USA
Synonyms
west wind
due west
western part
Western countries
people down west
people out west
down here
Frequenz
Ausgesprochen als (IPA)
/wɛst/
Etymologie (English)
In summary
PIE word *wek(ʷ)speros From Middle English west, from Old English west, from Proto-West Germanic *westr, from Proto-Germanic *westrą. Cognate with Scots wast, Saterland Frisian Wääste, West Frisian west, Dutch west, German West, Danish vest. Cognate also with Old French west, French ouest, Spanish oeste, Portuguese oeste, Catalan oest, Galician oeste, Italian ovest (all ultimately borrowings of the English word). Compare also Latin vesper (“evening”), with which it is possibly cognate via Proto-Indo-European.
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