English

leftwise

From left + -wise.

Formed from left + -wise

Proto-Germanic *luft-

Old English left ‘weak, clumsy, foolish’

Middle English left

English left

Today it means

adv By a leftward path; leftwards, leftwardly; anticlockwise, counterclockwise.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / leftwise