Etymology

deasil

D2E1A1S1I1L1

Today it means: Clockwise, sunwise. Full definition →

Scottish Gaelic deiseil ← Old Irish dessel
Ask AI about its historyChatGPTClaudePerplexityGoogle AIGrok

The story

  1. Old Irish · derived fromdessel“sunwise”
  2. Scottish Gaelic · derived fromdeiseil
  3. English todaydeasil

From 1771, from Scottish Gaelic deiseil, deiseal (“southward, sunward; clockwise”) (adjective and adverb), from Old Irish dessel (“sunwise”), from dess (“right, south”) and sel (“turn”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.