Why did this word disappear?

the only ones that stand out are french and portuguese.

in Ancient Far East Asia, Left = East , Right = West, Front = South, Back = North. And under Prime Minister, there were Left Minister and Right Minister. Guess which one was higher ranking? the Left minister. However, right also meant correct too. but Left did not mean wrong.

As a left handed person I am so lucky to be born in germany in the late 20th century.

Water Splash without Katara is Nordique O’spagnol

Hispanik actitidades

Lips smaller that polari flohr

Huh, so that’s where the word “sinister” comes from? Very interesting, I’m a lefty too.

I’ve also heard that in Arab (or specifically in Islamic?) culture it is considered disrespectful to give someone or to receive an object from someone with your left hand… Is this true?

Left = Evil 🤔 that checks out

dexter and sinister

I have a feeling this comes from people thinking left handed people were evil

didnt we do that with the word "bear" as well?

Just one note, in spanish, we also say diestro for a right handed person and siniestro for the left hand

Do people understand why we should stop listening to our ancestors yet? The fact that they got rid of a word cause it’s scared them is ridiculous

Italian is by far the most beautiful neo-Latin language. French is the ugliest.

Nobody likes the Left 😂

I feel attacked as my right eye is much weaker, I kick with and place my left leg first when walking, and I write mostly with my left (I can do a bit with the right)!

"DESTRA" e "SINISTRA" também se usa no português bem falado...

Seems like a Christian thing

leftys rise

Brazo izquierda del diablo

left is the bears of body description words

Is winistraz how we got widdershins?

This is also why all roman roads only ever turn right. Jk

There is a political comment to be made here somewhere...

Even Latin had another word for left, ‘laevus’

Yes, in spanish the word "siniestra" means evil but its original meaning still exists in the phrase "a diestra y siniestra"

No wonder everybody looked at me weird when i'd only buy left twix

The political spectrum suddenly makes a lot more sense

IS THAT WHERE THE EXPRESSION "diestra y siniestra" COMES FROM

This is why my life sucks. What do you mean I’m cursed by the devil because I’m left-handed? I’m cursed by you to have to bastardise objects in order to use them comfortablely, and smudge ink/graphite all over my hand whenever I write. Bad luck indeed.

they were not wrong that the left is evil

I found this confusing as im left handed. Then i remember like 90% of people are right anded lol

As soon as I saw that the left words were on the right side and the right words were on the left side my brain went bananas

The Hungarian word for "right" litterally means "better".

spanish has siniestro, but don't use it for left much often

most of the words on the table for right come from directam

and, a guy just told everyone that happened. they didn't believe it. then they found out it was true. and, he did that in a context of proving too them that they needed to repent the entire universe of language studies. and, here we are today they still haven't.

True, but in Spanish when we want to say that something is done without limit, we say: "a diestro y siniestro" which means "both right and left"

Isn’t this what happened with the original name for “bear”? I read that people became convinced that calling it by its name would summon it so they started calling it other things and the original name was lost in time.

Fun fact: sinistra in portuguese is the female adjective that stands fot sinister (just like in English).

the fact the chart shows words for left on the right pisses me off

In Spanish we do still use the word “siniestra” meaning left tho we do so infrequently. “Diestra y siniestra” means right and left. It’s not widely used, tho.

This might happen again

And people act like believing in superstitious stuff isn't extremely toxic behavior

Oh so thats why the white wingers call us the left.

As a euskara speaker I always noticed that Ezkerra sounded rather a lot like Izquierda, but I always assumed we had borrowed the word from the Romance languages and not viceversa. This feels really cool to learn

But I've always preferred left :(

A similar phenomenon is noticeable in the Hungarian language, whith right being "jobb" which literally translates to "better" and left translating to "bal" which is part of words like misfortune and accident (respcetively translating to "balszerencse" and "baleset")

Wait, is sinister derived from the latin word for left?

Do i remember a scishow tangents episode where Ceri was saying the same happened for the word “blood?”