left
Bedeutung (English)
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- Designating the side of the body toward the west when one is facing north; the side of the body on which the heart is located in most humans; the opposite of right. This arrow points to the reader's left: ←
- Designating the bank of a river (etc.) on one's left when facing downstream (i.e. facing forward while floating with the current); that is, the north bank of a river that flows eastward. If this arrow: ⥲ shows the direction of the current, the tilde is on the left side of the river.
- Left-wing; pertaining to the political left.
Konzepte
linke Seite
übrig gelassen
linke Partei
Linksaußen
nach links
Synonyms
left side
left hand
left hand side
to the left
on the left
the left
left-handed person
what else
wrong way
continue to exist
left rudder
be abandoned
remain over
gone forth
being on the left
left-hand side
no longer there
be left
not right
Frequenz
Ausgesprochen als (IPA)
/ˈlɛft/
Etymologie (English)
In summary
From Middle English left, luft, leoft, lift, lyft, from Old English left, lyft (“weak, clumsy, foolish”), attested in Old English lyftādl (“palsy, paralysis”), from Proto-Germanic *luft-, from *lubjaną (“to castrate, lop off”) (compare dialectal English lib, West Frisian lobje, Dutch lubben), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lewp-, *(s)lup- (“hanging limply”). Compare Scots left (“left”), North Frisian lefts, leeft, leefts (“left”), West Frisian lofts (“left”), dialectal Dutch loof (“weak, worthless”), Low German lucht (“left”).
leave
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- To have a consequence or remnant.
- To have a consequence or remnant.
- To have a consequence or remnant.
- To depart; to separate from.
- To depart; to separate from.
- To depart; to separate from.
- To depart; to separate from.
- To transfer something.
- To transfer something.
- To transfer something.
- (obsolete) To remain (behind); to stay.
- To stop, desist from; to "leave off" (+ noun / gerund).
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