different between west vs wolof

English

Etymology

From Middle English west, from Old English west, from Proto-Germanic *westr?. 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, Catalan oest, Galician oeste, Italian ovest (all ultimately borrowings of the English word). Compare also Latin vesper.

Pronunciation

• enPR: w?st, IPA^(key): /w?st/
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

west (uncountable)

1. One of the four principal compass points, specifically 270°, conventionally directed to the left on maps; the direction of the setting sun at an equinox, abbreviated as W.

Coordinate terms

• (compass points)

Derived terms

Translations

Also see Appendix:Cardinal directions for translations of all compass points

Adjective

west

1. Situated or lying in or toward the west; westward.
2. (meteorology) Of wind: from the west.
3. Of or pertaining to the west; western.
4. From the West; occidental.
5. (ecclesiastial) Designating, or situated in, that part of a church which is opposite to, and farthest from, the east, or the part containing the chancel and choir.

Translations

Adverb

west (not comparable)

1. Towards the west; westwards.

Translations

Verb

west (third-person singular simple present wests, present participle westing, simple past and past participle wested)

1. To move to the west; (of the sun) to set. [from 15th c.]
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, V.prologue:

     Foure times his place he shifted hath in sight, / And twice has risen, where he now doth West, / And wested twice, where he ought rise aright.

Anagrams

• Stew, Tews, ewts, stew, tews, wets

Cornish

Etymology

From English west.

Noun

west m

1. west

Synonyms

• gorlewin
• howlsedhes

Antonyms

• howldrehevel
• howldrevel

Derived terms

• north-west (“north-west”)
• soth-west (“south-west”)

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch west, from Old Dutch west, from Proto-Germanic *westr?. Compare German West, English and West Frisian west, Danish vest.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??st/
• Hyphenation: west
• Rhymes: -?st

Adverb

west

1. (only in compounds) west
2. westwards

Synonyms

• westwaarts

Antonyms

• oost

Derived terms

• westen
• westelijk

Descendants

• Afrikaans: wes
• ? Papiamentu: wèst

Coordinate terms

• (compass points)

Italian

Noun

west m (invariable)

1. West (historic area of America)

Low German

Verb

west

1. past participle of wesen

Middle English

Alternative forms

• weste, wæst, weeste

Etymology

From Old English west, in turn from Proto-Germanic *westr?.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w?st/, /?w??st(?)/
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

west

1. west (compass point)
2. A location to the south; the south
3. The west wind

Coordinate terms

• (compass point): north, east, south

Derived terms

• Westmestre

Related terms

• westerne
• westward

Descendants

• English: west
• Scots: wast

References

• “west, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 29-03-2018.

Adjective

west

1. west, western
2. At the west

Descendants

• English: west
• Scots: wast

References

• “west, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 29-03-2018.

Adverb

west

1. To the west, westards, westbound
2. From the west, western
3. In the west

Descendants

• English: west
• Scots: wast

References

• “west, adv.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 29-03-2018.

Northern Kurdish

Noun

west f

1. act of tiring or getting tired

Derived terms

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *westr?, whence also Old High German west, Old Norse vestr.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /west/

Adverb

west

1. west

Descendants

• Middle English: west
  • English: west
  • Scots: wast
• ? Old French: west
  • French: ouest
    • ? Catalan: oest
    • ? Galician: oeste
    • ? Italian: ovest
    • ? Portuguese: oeste
    • ? Spanish: oeste

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Old English west.

Adverb

west

1. west

Descendants

• French: ouest
  • ? Catalan: oest
  • ? Galician: oeste
  • ? Italian: ovest
  • ? Portuguese: oeste
  • ? Spanish: oeste

French

Alternative forms

• ouolof (adjective and noun)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w?.l?f/

Adjective

wolof (feminine singular wolofe, masculine plural wolofs, feminine plural wolofes)

1. Wolof

Noun

wolof f (uncountable)

1. Wolof (language)

Further reading

• “wolof” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Portuguese

Alternative forms

• wolofe (rare)

Noun

wolof m (plural wolof or wolofs or wolofes (uncommon))

1. (uncountable) Wolof (a Niger-Congo language spoken in Senegal and the Gambia)
2. a member of the Wolof people

Adjective

wolof m or f (plural wolof or wolofs)

1. relating to the Wolof people

Spanish

Adjective

wolof (plural wolofs)

1. Wolof (relating to the Wolof people)

Noun

wolof m (uncountable)

1. Wolof (a Niger-Congo language spoken in Senegal and the Gambia)

Noun

wolof m or f (plural wolofs)

1. a member of the Wolof people