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In English, the word left comes from the Anglo-Saxon lyft, meaning “weak” or “worthless.” The left hand of most right-handed people is in fact weaker than the right, but the original word also implied lack of moral strength. ...the Anglo-Saxon word for right, reht (or riht), meant “straight” or “just.” From reht and its Latin cognate, rectus, we derived our words “correct” and “rectitude.”