English

aleft

From a- + left.

Formed from a- + left

Proto-Indo-European *uds- ‘up, out’

Proto-Germanic *uz- ‘out-’

Proto-West Germanic *uʀ- ‘up, out, over’

English a-

Proto-Germanic *luft-

Old English left ‘weak, clumsy, foolish’

Middle English left

English left

Today it means

adv To or on the left-hand side.

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