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Име је добило јер на тој страни [[хоризонт]]а [[Сунце]] залази (пада, запада).
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The word "west" is a [[Germanic languages|Germanic]] word passed into some [[Romance languages]] (''ouest'' in French, ''oest'' in Catalan, ''ovest'' in Italian, ''oeste'' in Spanish and Portuguese). As in other languages, the word formation stems from the fact that west is the direction of the setting sun in the evening: 'west' derives from the Indo-European root ''*wes'' reduced from ''*wes-pero'' 'evening, night', cognate with Ancient Greek ἕσπερος [[Hesperus|hesperos]] 'evening; evening star; western' and Latin vesper 'evening; west'.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.etymonline.com/word/west|title=west {{!}} Origin and meaning of west by Online Etymology Dictionary|website=www.etymonline.com|language=en|access-date=2018-03-03}}</ref> Examples of the same formation in other languages include Latin [[Occident|occidens]] 'west' from occidō 'to go down, to set' and Hebrew מַעֲרָב maarav 'west' from עֶרֶב erev 'evening'.
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