west

• n. 西; 西部; 西部
• adj.西部；西向き
• adv. in the West; to the West; from the West
• n. （西の）人名；（英?独?フィン?スワンの）西

略語 PIE*wes-pero, 夕暮れ, 夕方, 語源はヴェスパーと同じ, PIE*we, 衰え, 落下, 日没の方向、すなわち西から派生。

west

west: [OE] Etymologically, the west may be the direction in which the sun goes ‘down’. Together with German and Dutch west, Swedish v?ster, and Danish vest, it comes from a prehistoric Germanic *westaz. This in turn was descended from the Indo-European base *wes-, which also produced Latin vesper (source of English vespers) and Greek hesperos ‘evening’ and was related to Sanskrit avas ‘down’. French ouest and Spanish oeste were borrowed from English west, Romanian vest from German west.
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west

Old English west (adv.) "in or toward the west, in a westerly direction," from Proto-Germanic *west- (cognates: Old Norse vestr, Old Frisian, Middle Dutch, Dutch west, Old High German -west, only in compounds, German west), from PIE *wes-, reduced form of *wes-pero- "evening, night" (cognates: Greek hesperos, Latin vesper "evening, west;" see vesper). Compare also High German dialectal abend "west," literally "evening." French ouest, Spanish oeste are from English.

As an adjective from late 14c.; as a noun from late 12c. West used in geopolitical sense from World War I (Britain, France, Italy, as opposed to Germany and Austria-Hungary); as contrast to Communist Russia (later to the Soviet bloc) it is first recorded in 1918. West Coast of the U.S. is from 1850; West End of London is from 1776; West Side of Manhattan is from, 1858. The U.S. West "western states and territories" originally (1790s) meant those just west of the Alleghenies; the sense gradually extended as the country grew. To go west "die" was "common during the Great War" [OED, 2nd ed.], perhaps from Celtic imagery or from the notion of the setting sun. In U.S. use, in a literal sense "emigrate to the western states or territories," from 1830.

1. Big credits were given to East Germany by successive West German governments.歴代西ドイツ政府は東ドイツに大量の融資を行ってきた。

2.He was headmaster of a public school in the West of England.

イングランド西部の公学の校長。

3.The government counted 27600000 employed persons in West Germany.

政府統計によると、西ドイツの当時の就業者数は2760万人だった。

4.For a beach resort with a difference,try Key West .

一風変わったビーチリゾートに行きたいなら、キーウェストに行きましょう。

5. West was wilfully blind to the abuse that took place.

ウェストは発生した虐待行為を故意に見て見ぬふりをしている。