freeborn | ελεύθερος on Nostr: 'sinister' literally means of the left or left-handed 'dexterous' means of the right ...
'sinister' literally means of the left or left-handed
'dexterous' means of the right or right-handed
would love to know how these words and ideas came to mean this, and which came first
#etymology #words
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