The words of the week: Right and Left

The clumsy Right and the left wing

writes Giorgos Damianos

Right

One of the most abused words in the European language, and not only, vocabulary is the word "right". Her journey begins, already, from the Mycenaean era with the anthroponym de-ki-si-wo > right > Lat.: dexter… The word right, since the time of Homer, defined "competent", the "strong". That's why it's right-wing (hand, foot) those parts of the body were named, which in the majority of people, are more "able", "skillfully"…to continue click here

Left

So that the left hand is not wronged, since all the "good" things were for the right, they used words with a positive meaning (euphemism). They called it, that is, excellent> left. In ancient Greek, in fact, was also called "eponymous" (eu+name > "good name")…about the relationship between the word "Zavos" and "Zervos" < (: left) see here

Political terms

The words Right and Left, as political terms, were first used in 11/9/1789 in the French National Assembly…

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