left

Bedeutung

1. 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: ←
2. 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.
3. Left-wing; pertaining to the political left.

Frequenz

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/ˈlɛft/

Etymologie

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”).

Verwandt mit Englisch

lib

Verwandt mit Westfriesisch

lobje

Verwandt mit Westfriesisch

lofts

Verwandt mit Niederländisch

loof

Neu

leave

1. To have a consequence or remnant.
2. To have a consequence or remnant.
3. To have a consequence or remnant.
4. To depart; to separate from.
5. To depart; to separate from.
6. To depart; to separate from.
7. To depart; to separate from.
8. To transfer something.
9. To transfer something.
10. To transfer something.
11. (obsolete) To remain (behind); to stay.
12. To stop, desist from; to "leave off" (+ noun / gerund).