{"id":7345,"date":"2012-07-24T18:39:27","date_gmt":"2012-07-24T18:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=7345"},"modified":"2012-07-24T18:39:27","modified_gmt":"2012-07-24T18:39:27","slug":"deiseal-agus-tuathal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=7345","title":{"rendered":"Deiseal agus tuathal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we discussed the Irish words <strong>deiseal<\/strong> (\/\u02c8d\u02b2\u025b\u0283\u0259l\/) and <strong>tuathal<\/strong> (\/&#8217;tu\u0259h\u0259l\/) in class. <strong>Deiseal<\/strong> means clockwise, dextral, right-hand, rightward, starboard, and <strong>tuathal<\/strong> means the opposite: anticlockwise, sinistral left-hand, leftward, port.<\/p>\n<p>Some examples of usage:<br \/>\n&#8211; bogadh ar deiseal =  to go in a clockwise direction<br \/>\n&#8211; dul deiseal = to go in a rightward direction<br \/>\n&#8211; fad is a bheas grian ag dul deiseal = whilst the sun follows its course<br \/>\n&#8211; ag bogadh ar tuathal = going in an anticlockwise direction<br \/>\n&#8211; c\u00fal tuathail = own goal<\/p>\n<p>They are related to the course of the sun, and date back to a time when the sun was thought to move around the earth from east to west. The course of the sun was considered the correct, right and good direction or <em>deiseal<\/em>, while the opposite direction <em>tuathal<\/em> was considered the wrong and bad direction. Buildings were built facing towards the rising sun, and adhering to these directions was thought to bring luck and prosperity.<\/p>\n<p>The word deasil also exists in English, though isn&#8217;t commonly used. The opposite is widdershins or withershins.<\/p>\n<p><em>Deiseal<\/em> comes from the Old Irish word <em>dessel<\/em>, which means &#8216;direction of the sun, right-hand course, and comes from <em>dess<\/em> (right) and <em>sel<\/em> (turn).<\/p>\n<p><em>Tuathal<\/em> comes from the Old Irish word <em>t\u00faaithbel<\/em>, which means &#8216;a turning lefthandwise, against the sun, withershins&#8217; and is a combination of <em>t\u00faath<\/em> (northern; left, on the left; perverse, wicked, evil) and <em>sel<\/em> (turn).<\/p>\n<p>Source: Early Irish History and Mythology, T. F. O&#8217;Rahilly, via <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/deiseal\">Wiktionary<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dil.ie\/results-list.asp?mode=BAS&#038;Fuzzy=0&#038;lang=OIr&#038;searchtext=%20deiseal%20%28Old%20Irish%29&#038;findlet=+&#038;findcol=&#038;sortField=ID&#038;sortDIR=65602&#038;respage=0&#038;resperpage=10&#038;bhcp=1\">eDIL<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Do other languages have words for directions with similar roots?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday we discussed the Irish words deiseal (\/\u02c8d\u02b2\u025b\u0283\u0259l\/) and tuathal (\/&#8217;tu\u0259h\u0259l\/) in class. Deiseal means clockwise, dextral, right-hand, rightward, starboard, and tuathal means the opposite: anticlockwise, sinistral left-hand, leftward, port. Some examples of usage: &#8211; bogadh ar deiseal = to go in a clockwise direction &#8211; dul deiseal = to go in a rightward direction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,127,10,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-irish","category-language","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7345","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=7345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}