east, East · sunrise, dawn; moonrise · Orient, (the) East
çekim: çoğul ανατολές · tamlayan ανατολής
zıt: δύση
köken: From Ancient Greek ἀνατολή (anatolḗ, “sunrise, place from where the sun rises, the east”), from ἀνατέλλω (anatéllō, “I rise up”), from ἀνά (aná, “up”) + τέλλω (téllō, “I perform, accomplish, rise”).
köken: From the past participle of the verb apune (“to fade, set”), from Latin apponere. Was the traditional word for "west", but today vest is used as the standard term. Compare also the descendants of Latin ponens in the Western Romance languages, which developed the meaning of "west".
köken: Uncertain; possibly from *crepus, *crepes, or *crepos combined with the suffix -culus. One possibility holds that this originates in a Proto-Indo-European form *ksep, that became *ksep-os or *ksep-əs-, then *ksep-os before emerging as *crepus. This sound could be explained through the dissimilation of the initial *s or through a shift from *ks- to *kr-. Varro suggests the term derives from…