"west" in seven languages
Meaningwest
Spanish
/oˈeste/
masc.borrowed · via French ouest, from Old English west
French
/wɛst/
masc.borrowed · Old English west
Italian
/ˈɔvest/
masc.borrowed · French ouest
Occidente and ponente are the older words.
Portuguese
/oˈɛstʃi/
masc.borrowed · French ouest, perhaps via Spanish oeste
Romanian
/vest/
neut.borrowed · French ouest and German West
The native word is apus, 'setting' (of the sun).
Catalan
/uˈɛst/
masc.borrowed · French ouest
Catalan also says ponent, 'setting'.
English
/wɛst/
from Latin/French · Old English west (English is the source)
The ancestor
Old English west‘west’
All six sisters descend from it, unless marked otherwise below.
The story
Like north, west came to the sisters from English through French. Latin OCCIDENS 'the setting (sun)' lives on in occidente, occident, occidente.
English relatives: western, westward
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In a sentence
- esEl sol se pone por el oeste.
- frLe soleil se couche à l'ouest.
- itIl sole tramonta a ovest.
- ptO sol se põe no oeste.
- roSoarele apune la vest.
- caEl sol es pon per l'oest.
- enThe sun sets in the west.
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