deasil means clockwise, sunwise. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 88 out of 100.
deasil is pronounced /ˈdjɛʃəl/.
Why “deasil” is a great word
DEASIL — [Adverb] In a clockwise direction, or following the sun's apparent daily motion (in the northern hemisphere), considered auspicious. From Scottish Gaelic deiseil, deiseal ("southward, sunward; clockwise"), from Old Irish dessel ("sunwise"), from dess ("right, south") and sel ("turn"). First attested in English in 1771. Unlike "widdershins," which evokes the sinister and ill-omened, or "clockwise," a sterile, mechanical description, deasil carries the warmth of ritual and the weight of good fortune. It is the solemn circumambulation of a sacred stone, the patient stirring of a healing brew with deliberate right-handed turns, and the hopeful passing of a cup around a hearth—a small, physical allegiance to the perceived order of a benevolent cosmos.
adv
- Clockwise, sunwise.“In Strathfillan, Perthshire, people are cured of insanity by being made to go three times deasil round a certain pool and then being plunged headlong into it.”
noun
- A motion towards the right, in the direction of the hands of a clock or of the apparent motion of the sun (in the northern hemisphere); a turning in this direction.“It consists, as is well known, in the person who makes the deasil walking three times round the person who is the object of the ceremony, taking care to move according to the course of the sun.”