Definitions For Widdershin

Adverb

{{en-adv, -}} (obsolete) The wrong way. anticlockwise, anticlockwise, counter-clockwise. : {{ant, en, clockwise, sunwise, deiseal}} : It is unlucky to walk widdershins around a church. }}

Translations

Bulgarian: обратно на часовниковата стрелка Czech: proti směru hodinových ručiček Dutch: linksom, tegen de klok in, tegenwijzerzin Finnish: vastapäivään German: gegen den uhrzeigersinn Russian: против часово́й стрелки, противосолонь Scottish Gaelic: tuathail Spanish: en sentido contrario al reloj, sinistrorso

Alternative forms

{{alt, en, withershins, , less common}} {{alt, en, widdersins, withersins, , archaic}}

Etymology

Ca. 1500, from {{bor, en, gml, weddersins}} (also , wēder-, -sinnes), from wedder-, wed(d)der-, , wither-, against, opposite + genitive of sin, , direction, way.