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by hawski 890 days ago
It is funny in my language as we have the same word for both noon and south.
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Also in Italian. "Mezzogiorno" both means noon and south.
Is it French (midi)?
I imagine he's talking about poĊ‚udnie in Polish.
South in French is sud, while noon is indeed midi. However, the two words are the same in Latin (meridies, lit. midday, as in p.m. = post meridiem, etc.), so probably in some of the other Romance languages they do match?
Midi is also a word for south in French, colloquially.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_France

The south of France is known colloquially as "Le Midi".