810: west, and vesper Feb 25, 2017

If you didn't see the post on words deriving and relating to 'east', you should see that here. The word, 'west' has far fewer related terms in English than 'east', but there are still a number of relations from other languages. It comes from an Old English word that is not only related to modern related to Dutch and German equivalents, but also it is related through a larger Indo-European root shared by the Greek 'hesperos', and the Latin 'vesper'. Both words for ‘evening’ were also the names of the gods associated with that. 'Evening' or even the goddess thereof might not seem conceptually related, but remember that the Sun rises in the east and sets in the west, something that was far more important to Latins and English tribes then that it would be now.