"Де Захід?"

Translation: Where is the West?

[ellebi09]

Someone could explain me the ethimologies of ukrainian words for west, east, north and south? Thanks a Lot!

[deactivated user]

Basically, they are related to the position of the sun:

• За́хід (genitive case form: за́ходу) is from the verb захо́дити; about sun, it means 'to set', about people, it means 'to go into'. West is the place where the sun sets.
• Схі́д (gentive case: схо́ду) is from the verb схо́дити. About sun, it means 'to rise'. East is the place where the sun rises.
• Пі́вдень is literally 'midday' (пів- is 'half', день is 'day'), it can mean either 'noon' or 'South'. In the northern hemisphere, at midday the sun is in the south.
• Пі́вніч is either 'midnight' or 'North'. Of course, the sun is not visible at midnight, but it's likely that people understood mignight to be opposite to midday.

[ellebi09]

Дуже дякую! This explanation is very useful To me: Now remembering those words will be definitely easier!

[spicy_wolf]

In this sentence you can get two absolutely different translations: "Where is the West?.." and "Where is the event?" as захід/zakhid has both of these meanings.

[BlueBoxCharlie]

It could be the event if the question looked like this: "Де захід?"