{"id":17956,"date":"2019-06-20T16:26:57","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T16:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=17956"},"modified":"2019-06-20T16:26:57","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T16:26:57","slug":"up-north-out-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=17956","title":{"rendered":"Up North &#038; Out West"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/directions.gif\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;\" alt=\"Directions\" width=\"208\" height=\"208\"\/><\/p>\n<p>This week I learnt some interesting weather-related phrases in Swedish on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.memrise.com\/course\/1135114\/swedish-5\/18\/\">Memrise<\/a>, including <strong>norrut<\/strong> (up north \/ northward), <strong>s\u00f6derut<\/strong> (down south \/ southward), <strong>\u00f6sterut<\/strong> (out east \/ eastward) and <strong>v\u00e4sterut<\/strong> (out west \/ westward).<\/p>\n<p>Examples of how they are used include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Upproret blir mer allm\u00e4nt och g\u00e5r norrut = The rising is spreading and moving northwards<\/li>\n<li>Enandet, som skedde i r\u00e4tt tid, j\u00e4mnar v\u00e4gen f\u00f6r utvidgningen \u00f6sterut = This prompt agreement paves the way to enlargement eastward<\/li>\n<li>Det blir regn v\u00e4sterut = There will be rain out west<\/li>\n<li>Det klarnar nog upp s\u00f6derut = It&#8217;ll probably clear up down south<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sources: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.bab.la\/dictionary\/swedish-english\/\">bab.la<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.memrise.com\/course\/1135114\/swedish-5\/18\/\">Memrise<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>In Swedish they all have the <strong>ut<\/strong> (out) in them, so more literal translations of <strong>norrut<\/strong>  and <strong>s\u00f6derut<\/strong> would be &#8220;out north&#8221; and &#8220;out south&#8221;, or even &#8220;north out&#8221; and &#8220;south out&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>These sound wrong in English, at least to my ears. To me north is up and south is down, so it makes sense to say <strong>up north<\/strong> and <strong>down south<\/strong>, although I&#8217;m not sure why we say <strong>out east\/west<\/strong>. Does anybody know? Are there other ways to refer to directions?<\/p>\n<p>In Irish, and other Gaelic languages, the words for directions change depending on whether you&#8217;re in the north, going north, coming from the north, and so on. For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>tuaisceart = north, northern, \u00f3 thuaidh = north of \/ going north, aduaigh = from the north<\/li>\n<li>deisceart = south, southern, \u00f3 dheas = south of \/ going south, aneas = from the south<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bitesize.irish\/blog\/compass-points\/\">More details<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week I learnt some interesting weather-related phrases in Swedish on Memrise, including norrut (up north \/ northward), s\u00f6derut (down south \/ southward), \u00f6sterut (out east \/ eastward) and v\u00e4sterut (out west \/ westward). Examples of how they are used include: Upproret blir mer allm\u00e4nt och g\u00e5r norrut = The rising is spreading and moving [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,127,10,67,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-irish","category-language","category-swedish","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17956\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}