deiseal

Meanings

Noun

• Motion towards the right, in the direction of the hands of a clock or of the apparent motion of the sun (in the northern hemisphere); a turning in this direction.
• Alternative of deasil

Adverb

• Clockwise; sunwise.

Interjection

• A deprecation meaning May it go right, said to someone who sneezes or swallows something awry.

Related

Similar words

• clockwise
• sunwise
• righthandwise

Opposite words

• widdershins
• withershins
• tuaithbel

Origin

• Borrowed from Irish deiseal, from Old Irish dessel, from dess + sel.