"oriental" + "occidental"

2 words, meaning "eastern" and "western":

(these have to do with the "rise" and "fall" of the sun!)

oriental ("to do with the eastern part of the world"):

• orient ("the eastern part of the world")
  • Latin oriēns ("the east", "sunrise")
  • Latin orior ("to get up", "to rise")
    • PIE *h3er- ("to move")
      • this slowly became *rinnaną in Proto-Germanic
      • rinnaną later became run in English

occidental ("to do the western part of the world"):

• occident ("the western part of the world")
  • borrowed from Middle French occidental
  • Latin occidentem ("the west, "sunset")
  • Latin occido ("to go down")
  • Latin ob- ("towards") + cadō ("to fall")
    • PIE *kh2d- ("to fall")

this likely links with *ḱeh₂d- ("to hate") !