As in other languages, the word is formed from the fact that east is the direction where the Sun rises: east comes from Middle Englishest, from Old Englishēast, which itself comes from the Proto-Germanic *aus-to- or *austra- "east, toward the sunrise", from Proto-Indo-European *aus- "to shine," or "dawn",[1] cognate with Old High German*ōstar "to the east", Latinaurora 'dawn', and Greekἠώςēōs 'dawn, east'.[2] Examples of the same formation in other languages include Latinoriens 'east, sunrise' from orior 'to rise, to originate', Greek ανατολή anatolé 'east' from ἀνατέλλω 'to rise' and Hebrew מִזְרָח mizraḥ 'east' from זָרַח zaraḥ 'to rise, to shine'. Ēostre, a Germanic goddess of dawn, might have been a personification of both dawn and the cardinal points.
East is sometimes abbreviated as E.
Navigationedit
By convention, the right-hand side of a map is east. This convention has developed from the use of a compass, which places north at the top. However, on maps of planets such as Venus and Uranus which rotate retrograde, the left hand side is east.[citation needed]
East is the direction toward which the Earth rotates about its axis, and therefore the general direction from which the Sun appears to rise. The practice of praying towards the East is older than Christianity, but has been adopted by this religion as the Orient was thought of as containing mankind's original home. Hence, Christian churches have been traditionally oriented towards the east.[3][4] After some early exceptions, this tradition of having the altar on the liturgical east has become a part of the church orientation concept liturgical east and west.
The Orient is the East, traditionally comprising anything that belongs to the Eastern world, in relation to Europe. In English, it is largely a metonym for, and referring to the same area as, the continent of Asia, divided into the Far East, Middle East, and Near East. Despite this Eurocentric origin, these regions are still located to the east of the Geographical centre of Earth.
Within an individual city within the Northern Hemisphere, the east end is typically poorer because the prevailing winds blow from the west.[5]
^"Orientation of Churches". Catholic Encyclopedia. Retrieved 3 December 2013.
^Peters, Bosco (30 April 2012). "Architectural Design Guidelines 1". Liturgy.co.nz. Retrieved 3 December 2013.
^Benedictus, Leo (12 May 2017). "Blowing in the wind: why do so many cities have poor east ends?". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 October 2019.
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The dictionary definition of east at Wiktionary
November 29, 2023
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