Why did this word disappear?

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

Wait, is sinister derived from the latin word for 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")

But I've always preferred 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

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

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

This might happen again

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.

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

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

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.

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"

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.

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

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

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

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

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

they were not wrong that the left is evil

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.

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

The political spectrum suddenly makes a lot more sense

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

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

Even Latin had another word for left, ‘laevus’

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

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

Is winistraz how we got widdershins?

left is the bears of body description words

Brazo izquierda del diablo

leftys rise

Seems like a Christian thing

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

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)!

Nobody likes the Left 😂

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

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

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

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

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

dexter and sinister

Left = Evil 🤔 that checks out

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?

Lips smaller that polari flohr

Hispanik actitidades

Water Splash without Katara is Nordique O’spagnol

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

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.

the only ones that stand out are french and portuguese.