Sunset (Loojang)

A word for "sunset" in Estonian is loojang. The word loojang may derived from looma (to create), or from loe (northwest).  It's not known which is its origin; there seems to be evidence for both, given the similarities between the words for "northwest" and "west" in various Finnic languages and the word for "sunset" in those languages, as well as connections between the two meanings of looja ("beyond the horizon" and "creator").

Comparison of the word for "sunset" (päikeseloojang) or "behind the horizon" (silmapiiri taha)  in Finnic languages:
     Estonian (standard): loojang, looja
     Estonian (Tõstamaa dialect): loode
     Estonian (Kodavere dialect): luajak (also: luuja)
     Estonian (Kihnu dialect): luõdõ (also: luuja)
     Võru: luuja
     Livonian: lūojõ
     Votic: loojaa 
     Ingrian: loojaa 

Comparison of the words for "northwest" (loe) and "west" (lääs) in Finnic languages (keep in mind that it is common for the meanings of these words to have shifted to different cardinal points over time, i.e. from west to northwest or vice versa:
     Estonian (standard, but not some of the dialects): loe, meaning: northwest
     Estonian (Lüganuse dialect): loode, meaning: northwest
     Estonian (Kihnu dialect): luõdõ, meaning: northwest
     Võru: loodõh, meaning: northwest
     Votic:  looõ (also: loo, looto), meaning: northwest
     Finnish: luode, meaning: northwest
     Ingrian:  looe (also: loove), meaning: northwest
     Ludic: luodeh, meaning west 
     Livonian: lūod,  meaning: northwest
     Veps: lodeh, meaning both west and northwest
     Viena Karelian: luoteh, meaning both west and northwest
     South Karelian: luodeh, meaning west, and luueh, meaning northwest
     Aunuse Karelian: luodeh, meaning both west and northwest
     Estonian loettuul, (Prangli dialect), meaning "northwestern wind"
     Latvian: luodes vējš, meaning "northwestern wind" (borrowed from Livonian lūod)

Comparison of idiomatic phrases meaning "the sun sets" in Finnic languages:
     Estonian (standard): päike läheb looja
     Estonian (archaic): päev läheb looja
     Estonian (Hargla dialect): päiv lätt luuja
     Livonian: pǟva lǟ’b lūojõ
     Votic: päivükäz laskiijaa loojaa
     Võru: päiv lätt Jumalihe, päiv lätt Jumalilõ

Allikad/sources:
Eesti etümoloogiasõnaraamat,  Väike murdesõnastik; Eesti fraseologismide elektrooniline alussõnastik​, Prangli murdesõnastik, Kihnu sõnaraamat,  Kodavere sõnaruamat, Võru-Eesti Synaraamat

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