köken: From Middle High German mittetac, from Old High German mittitac, compound of mitti (see German Mitte) and tac (see Tag). Cognate to Dutch middag.
köken: From ج ن ب (j n b) with the base stem meaning “to go aside”, “to go far off in a direction”, ”to remove to a distance”, “to be remote”, “to change” or “to veer”, “to take off one's clothes” or “to lay them aside”. The direction originates as the name of a positively-viewed warm-moist southerly wind, the humid weather allowing clothes to be laid aside, whereas شَمَال (šamāl, “north”) comes from a…
köken: From Koine Greek μεσημέριον (mesēmérion), neuter form of μεσημέριος (mesēmérios, “at midday”). By surface analysis, μέση (mési) + ημέρα (iméra).
köken: From Old Swedish miþdagher, midhdagher, Old Norse miðdagr, miðr dagr, from miðr (“middle”) + dagr (“day”). By surface analysis, mid- + dag (“day”). Middag originally referred to the biggest meal of the day, which was eaten at noon, hence the name, and the meal eaten in the evening was kvällsmat or kvällsvard. After the Industrial Revolution, the time of the main meal of the day shifted to the…
aile: brakmiddag, middagstid
– Vad blir det till middag? – (Det blir) kålpudding.
noon; midday (time of day when the Sun seems to reach its highest point in the sky; mean time of solar noon, marked as twelve o'clock on most clocks) · noon; midday (middle of the day) · south (one of the four principal compass points being directed towards the South Pole)
çekim: çoğul południa · tamlayan południa
eş: S, pd.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰel- Proto-Indo-European *(s)pel-der. Proto-Slavic *polъ Proto-Slavic *polъ- Proto-Indo-European *dyew-der. Proto-Balto-Slavic *dein-der. Proto-Slavic *dьne Proto-Slavic *polъdьne Old Polish południe Polish południe Inherited from Old Polish południe. By surface analysis, pół- + dzień + -ie.
aile: w grudniu po południu, Krzyż Południa, południca, południk, południowiec, popołudnie, przedpołudnie
köken: From Proto-Finnic *etelä (“south, southwest”) (compare Estonian edel (“southwest”)). Equivalent of esi- (“front”) + -lä, meaning something like “the direction towards which entrances in houses/huts face”; named so because dwellings tended to be built facing south, as it was the warmest direction (as that is where the sun shines from at noon in northern Europe).
köken: From amiazăzi, from Latin ad mediam diem. Compare Latin meridies, Italian mezzodì, French midi, Catalan migdia, Occitan mieidia, Portuguese meio-dia, Spanish mediodía. Alternatively, from Latin medīdiē, variant of the standard merīdiēs (compare Italian meriggio).