Name for 16th February- West

February 24, 2010 · Filed under Names · Tagged East, Easter, Easton, North, West

nameberry.com-The most fashionable of what you might call the direction names, withNorth and East (or Easton and Easter) coming up behind, and South not yet on the map

wikipedia.org-West is a noun, adjective, or adverb indicating direction or geography.

West is one of the four cardinal directions or compass points. It is the opposite of east and is perpendicular to north and south.

By convention, the left side of a map is west.

The English word “west” is cognate to the Old High German word westar, which may derive from an Indo-European root from which the Latin word vesper, meaning “evening”, derives; as the sun sets in the west during the evening