Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - widdershins
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Widdershins
widdershins
also withershins adverb Etymology: Middle Low German weddersinnes, from Middle High German widersinnes, from widersinnen to go against, from wider back against (from Old High German widar) + sinnen to travel, go; akin to Old High German sendan to send — more at with, send Date: 1545 in a left-handed, wrong, or contrary direction ; counterclockwise — compare deasil
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- 1513, chiefly Scottish, originally "contrary to the course of the sun or a clock" (movement in this direction considered unlucky); for first element, see withers; second element is gen. of O.N. sinni "way," related to send. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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