Etymology of Portuguese/Spanish "oeste"?

I remember reading in either W.D. Elcock's "The Romance Languages" (1960) or William J. Entwistle's "The Spanish language" (1936) (Can't remember which) that it is a loanword from Anglo-Saxon (Old English) by way of French.

"Vest" is a neologism in Romanian probably influenced by the English word. The traditional Romanian word for "west" is apus which also means "sunset" from the verb a apune "to set (the sun)." It goes back to a Vulgar Latin *ad ponere.

Albanian has an interesting word for west " perëndimi" from Latin from Latin imperator "emperor" because the Roman emperors dwelled in the West.

Occidens, the Classical Latin word for "west" left no direct descendants in any of the modern Romance languages that I am aware of. Mario Pei also talks a little bit in his "Story of Language (1960) about how the Romance languages borrowed the words for directions and some of their colors from the Germanic languages. He though it was strange since the Romans were not color blind nor deficient in telling directions. However, I've also been told that languages don't always borrow words from other languages for any rational reasons either.

So, you might want to get a hold of a copy of either Elcock's "Romance languages" or Entwhistle's "The Spanish language" to verify the etymology of Spanish oeste.

I think you're right that "oeste" has Germanic roots--it's probably a legacy of the Visigoths and/or the Vandals. The American Heritage Dictionary traces the word to a hypothetical Indo-European "wespero-," meaning "evening" and the root of the Greek "hesperos," also meaning evening. You may know that, in Book II of the Aeneid, Aeneas is first told that his destiny lies in "Hesperia," the land to the west, and that he sails around the Mediterranean in a generally westward direction for some time before he puts enough pieces together to realize that he's meant to go to Italy.

you are right. Portuguese and Spanish "oeste" come from Germanic. The words for the four cardinal points have Germanic origin.

EDIT

According to the Spanish Royal Academy Dictionary, that word comes from French "ouest". The French word, comes from Old English "west".

So, it is possible to say that the Spanish word comes from an English word, via French.

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