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left
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/ lɛft /
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adjective
noun
adverb
toward the left: She moved left on entering the room.
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Origin of left
1First recorded in 1125–75; 1935–40 for def. 6; Middle English left, lift, luft, Old English left “idle, weak, useless,” Kentish form of lyft- (in lyftādl “palsy”); cognate with Dutch, Low German lucht; akin to Middle English libbe (modern dialect lib ) “to castrate,” cognate with Dutch, Low German lubben
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/ (lɛft) /
adjective
adverb
on or in the direction of the left
noun
Word Origin for left
Old English left idle, weak, variant of lyft- (in lyftādl palsy, literally: left-disease); related to Middle Dutch lucht left
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