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|etymtx=Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: [[left]] (Il.).<br />Derivatives: a plant <b class="b3">ἀριστερεών</b> (Plin.) = <b class="b3">περιστερεών</b> (reshaped after this form?); s. Strömberg Pflanzennamen 153.251f.; not related to [[left]]?<br />Origin: GR [a formation built with Greek elements]<br />Etymology: With the contrast marking suffix <b class="b3">-τερο-</b>. One mostly assumes connection with <b class="b3">ἄρισ-τος</b> . - There are different opinions as to the question which side was favorable and which not; cf. Lat. [[sinister]], OHG [[winister]], aw. <b class="b2">vairyastāra-</b> [[left]] (old euphemism?). Chantr. Gedenkschr. Kretschmer 1, 61-9. J. Cuillandre La droite et la gauche dans les poèmes homériques. Paris 1944. - Differently, Georgacas Glotta 36 (1958) 114f.; to Av. <b class="b2">vairyastara-</b>). | |etymtx=Grammatical information: adj.<br />Meaning: [[left]] (Il.).<br />Derivatives: a plant <b class="b3">ἀριστερεών</b> (Plin.) = <b class="b3">περιστερεών</b> (reshaped after this form?); s. Strömberg Pflanzennamen 153.251f.; not related to [[left]]?<br />Origin: GR [a formation built with Greek elements]<br />Etymology: With the contrast marking suffix <b class="b3">-τερο-</b>. One mostly assumes connection with <b class="b3">ἄρισ-τος</b> . - There are different opinions as to the question which side was favorable and which not; cf. Lat. [[sinister]], OHG [[winister]], aw. <b class="b2">vairyastāra-</b> [[left]] (old euphemism?). Chantr. Gedenkschr. Kretschmer 1, 61-9. J. Cuillandre La droite et la gauche dans les poèmes homériques. Paris 1944. - Differently, Georgacas Glotta 36 (1958) 114f.; to Av. <b class="b2">vairyastara-</b>). | ||
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|mdlsjtxt=<br /><b class="num">1.</b> [[left]], on the [[left]], Lat. [[sinister]], ἐπ' [[ἀριστερά]] [[towards]], i. e. on, the [[left]], Il.; ἐπ' ἀριστερὰ χειρός on the [[left]] [[hand]], Od.; ἐξ ἀριστερῆς χειρός on the [[left]] [[hand]], Hdt.; or [[simply]], ἐξ ἀριστερᾶς Soph.; ἐς ἀριστερήν, ἐν ἀριστερῆι Hdt.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> metaph. [[boding]] ill, [[ominous]], [[because]] to a Greek [[augur]], looking [[northward]], the [[unlucky]] signs came from the [[left]], Od. [deriv. uncertain].] | |||
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