Comment on How did people refer to clockwise movement before the invention of the clock?
fubo@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Imagine you’re in the Northern Hemisphere and you face east toward the rising sun. Over the course of the day, the sun will seem to move to the south, and then set in the west. This forms a “sunwise” turn, which is what we now call “clockwise” because we made clocks in imitation of sundials.
loke@fedia.io 10 months ago
In Swedish it's called medsols and motsols. The iteral translation is with the sun and against the sun.
idiomaddict@feddit.de 10 months ago
Is there a large perceptible pronunciation difference? Because if not med and mot being opposites seems like it’s rife for sitcom hijinks
kamiheku@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
There is, yeah, /meːd/ and /muːt/
idiomaddict@feddit.de 10 months ago
Thank you! That makes sense, I forgot north Germanic languages don’t do final devoicing. In German, the d would be pronounced as /t/ in that position.