köken: From gauchir (“to bend, dodge, warp”), a conflation of Old French gauchier (“to tread”) (from Frankish *walkijan, *walkan, cognate with English walk) + Old French guenchir (“to deviate”) (from Frankish *wenkijan (“to sway, falter”)). Gauche replaced the original Latin-derived word for "left", senestre, in the sixteenth century. Compare Walloon gåtche.
köken: From Middle Dutch scheyff, from Proto-West Germanic *skēf, from Proto-West Germanic *skaib, from Proto-Germanic *skaibaz ‘crooked, askew’, from Proto-Indo-European *skeh₂iwo-. Compare Latin scaevus (“left, clumsy”), Ancient Greek σκαιός (skaiós, “rude; brusque”), Latvian šķìbs (“crooked”). Cognate with German schief, Old English *sc(e)āf (in scāffōt (“splay-footed”)), Swedish skev.
tilted, sloping, slanted, oblique, askew, inclined (not erect or perpendicular; not parallel to, or at right angles from, the base) · lopsided, asymmetrical, uneven, wonky, crooked (not even or balanced; not the same on one side as on the other) · cockeyed, strabismic, squint-eyed, cross-eyed
çekim: çoğul ко́сі · tamlayan ко́сого
köken: Inherited from Old Ruthenian косый (kosyj), from Old East Slavic косъ (kosŭ), from Proto-Slavic *kosъ.
köken: From Old Norse skeifr, from Proto-Germanic *skaibaz (“crooked”), of disputed ultimate origin. Perhaps from the same source as *skeuhaz (“frightened, shy”). Another possibility is Proto-Indo-European *skeh₂iwos, the source of Latin scaevus (“on the left side”). See also Swedish skev, Dutch scheef, German schief (from Low German).
köken: From Proto-Indo-European *dh₃ǵʰmós (“oblique”). Cognate with Ancient Greek δοχμός (dokhmós, “aslant, oblique”). The development of Sanskrit -j- from Proto-Indo-European *d is also seen in जिह्वा (jihvā, “tongue”), from Proto-Indo-European *dn̥ǵʰwéh₂s.