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单词 winster
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winsteradj.n.

Forms: Old English winestra, Old English winstra, Old English wunstra (chiefly late), Old English–early Middle English wynstra, early Middle English wunstre.
Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian winstera , Old Saxon winistar , Old High German winistar (Middle High German winster ), Old Icelandic vinstri , Old Swedish vinstre (Swedish vänster ), Old Danish vinstre (Danish venstre ), apparently reflecting a formation on the Germanic base of Old English wine friend (see wine n.2) with an Indo-European double comparative suffix formed from the comparative suffix reflected by classical Latin -is (in e.g. magis , nimis : see -er suffix3) plus the comparative suffix reflected by Sanskrit -tara , ancient Greek -τερος , classical Latin -ter (see other adj., pron., n., and adv.2); the formation therefore exactly parallels the suffixation of synonymous classical Latin sinister sinister adj. Apparently originally a euphemistic designation for the side that is perceived to be weaker and therefore inferior and less favoured; compare likewise ancient Greek ἀριστερός (a derivative of ἄριστος best: see aristo- comb. form) and perhaps also classical Latin sinister (see sinister adj.), and see further discussion at left adj.1, n., and adv.).
Obsolete.
= left adj.1 1. Also as n.: the left hand. Opposed to swither.
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the world > space > relative position > quality of having sides or being a side > [adjective] > situated at the side > left
winstereOE
lefta1200
car1279
wrong?a1400
left hand1440
sinister1483
sinistral1534
left-hand side1581
nar1607
sinistrous1646
nigh1722
left-handed1757
larboard1781
leftward1791
sinistrine1792
left-sided1801
toward1866
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > limb > extremities > hand > [noun] > left hand
winstereOE
left handc1275
bridle hand?1561
bow-hand1598
buckler-hand1676
rein hand1738
sinister1770
southpaw1813
ciotóg1832
shield-hand1891
eOE Bald's Leechbk. (Royal) (1865) i. 6 (table of contents) Læcedomas wið þære swiðran sidan sare & þære winestran.
OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) vi. 3 Soþlice þonne þu þine ælmessan do, nyte þin wynstre hwæt do þin swyþre.
OE tr. Medicina de Quadrupedibus (Vitell.) ii. 238 Nim æppel mid þinre wynstran handa, mid twam fingrum.
OE tr. Apollonius of Tyre (1958) x. 16 And on ðare stræte stod and mid þare swiðran hand þone hwæte hlod [read heold] and mid þam winstran fet þa mittan træd.
c1175 ( Homily: Hist. Holy Rood-tree (Bodl. 343) (1894) 2 Wurden iwæxene ðreo ȝyrden; þeo an wæs æt his heafod, oðer æt his swiðere sidan, þridde æt his wunstræn [OE Kansas Y 103 æt his wynstran sidan].
c1175 ( Homily (Bodl. 343) in S. Irvine Old Eng. Homilies (1993) 198 He sæt þa soðfestæ on þam swiðere healfe, and þa synfulle on þam wunstren healfe.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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