köken: First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean 왼〯손〮 (Yale: wǒyn-swón), equivalent to 왼 (oen, “left-side”) + 손 (son, “hand”).
left-hander, left-handed man (someone who is better with his left hand than with his right hand)
çekim: çoğul kreiļi · tamlayan kreiļa
köken: From Proto-Indo-European *sker-, *ker-, *kr̥- (“to turn, to bend”), changed to Proto-Baltic *krei-, with a suffix -r, giving rise to an adjective *kreiras > *kreilas (compare archaic adjective krails (“bent, crooked”)) and a noun *kreiris. The meaning evolved from “bent, crooked” to “not strong, clumsy, weaker, less good,” hence “left (hand),” as opposed to the “good,” “able” right hand, and then…