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: Borrowed from Basque ezkerra, absolutive singular form of ezker (“left”). Cognate with Catalan esquerra and Portuguese esquerda. Displaced siniestra.
aile: cero a la izquierda, extrema izquierda, izquierdista
çekim: karşılaştırma (по)леве́е · üstünlük са́мый ле́вый
zıt: пра́вый
köken: From лево́й (levój) (accent alignment – from пра́вый (právyj) – in pairs closely related in meaning) from Old East Slavic лѣвъ (lěvŭ, “left, wrong, evil”), from Proto-Slavic *lěvъ.
köken: From Proto-Semitic *śimaʔl-. Cognate with Hebrew שְׂמֹאל (s'mól, “left”), Akkadian 𒆏 (šumēlum, “left side”), Aramaic סְמָלָא (səmālā) / ܣܡܠܐ (semmālā, “left side”), Ugaritic 𐎌𐎎𐎀𐎍 (šmảl). The north sense derives from the left-hand side facing the sunrise, also attested in Sabaean 𐩠𐩦𐩱𐩣𐩡 (hs²ʾml, “to be northward”).
köken: From Proto-Indo-European *kep- (“to bend, curve”), a possibly dialectal combination of Proto-Indo-European *kh₂emp- (“to bend, curve”) + *(s)kamb- (“crooked”) (compare Latin cambiō (“to exchange”), whence English change), the latter (*(s)kamb-) which may be of the same origin as the former (*kh₂emp-). Cognate with Sanskrit चाप (cāpa, “bow, arc”), Sanskrit चपल (capala, “trembling, unsteady,…
left; on the left side · clumsy, awkward · foolish
zıt: dexter
köken: From Proto-Indo-European *leh₂iwos (“left (side)”). Cognates include Ancient Greek λαιός (laiós, “left, awkward”), Old Church Slavonic лѣвъ (lěvŭ, “left”), and Tocharian B laiwo (“lassitude”).
et inde tot per impotentia freta erum tulisse (laeva sīve dextera vocāret aura, sīve utrumque Iuppiter simul secundus incidisset in pedem)
köken: From Middle Danish tillbaghe, originally a preposition phrase with til (“to”) and the old genitive plural of bag (“back”). Compare Swedish tillbaka, Icelandic til baka, Norwegian tilbake. A similar formation, with a different noun, in German zurück, Dutch terug, Low German torügg.