sunleviĝo

Three pieces, all of them yours already.Suno at rank 353 is the sun. Leviĝi at 397 is to rise: levi is to lift something, -iĝ- turns it inward, so leviĝi is to come up under your own steam. The final -o makes the whole verb into an event. Sunleviĝo: the sun's rising. You could have built this word yourself the day you learned rank 397, and that is precisely the point of the language.

The antonym is its mirror image, built the same way.Sunsubiro arrived at rank 2,407, five hundred ranks earlier, and its page pointed forward to this one. Sub plus iri is to go under; leviĝi is to come up. Rising and going-under, sun in front of each. Two words, no memorisation, and between them they bracket the whole day. You will also meet sunleviĝo written sunlevo, and sunsubiro written sunsubiĝo; the forms with the full verb inside are the ones dictionaries lead with.

The rest of the daylight vocabulary follows the same rule. Sunlumo is sunlight, sunbrilo sunshine, sunombrelo a parasol, sunbruno a tan. Beside them sit the plain time words: mateno at 336, vespero at 272, and horizonto at 1,650 for the line all of this happens on. Ĉe la sunleviĝo is at sunrise; antaŭ la sunleviĝo is the hour that every early train timetable is written around.