left
→
left (political)
15 realizations
Related shifts
| ID | Meaning 1 | Direction | Meaning 2 |
| ACCEPTED Realization 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Armenian | |
| lexeme | jax (ձախ) | |
| meaning 1 | left | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | left (political) | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 2 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Danish | |
| lexeme | venstre | |
| meaning 1 | left | venstre hånd left hand |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | left (political) | det yderste venstre extreme left wing |
| reference | DDO | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 3 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | English | |
| lexeme | left | |
| meaning 1 | designating the side of the body toward the west when one is facing north; the opposite of right. | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | pertaining to the political left | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 4 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Finnish | |
| lexeme | vasen | |
| meaning 1 | vasemmisto | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (politics) the left | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 5 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | French | |
| lexeme | gauche | |
| meaning 1 | left | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | left-wing parties − socialists, communists | |
| reference | CNRTL | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 6 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | German | |
| lexeme | links | |
| meaning 1 | left | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | belonging to the totality of parties, political groups, currents representing socialism, communism | |
| reference | Duden | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 7 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Derivation | |
| language | Hungarian | |
| lexeme 1 | bal | |
| lexeme 2 | baloldal | |
| meaning 1 | left | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (politics) left wing | |
| reference | MEK 1978 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 8 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Icelandic | |
| lexeme | vinstri | |
| meaning 1 | left | hann lyfti vinstri hendinni he raised his left hand |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | left (political) | vinstri flokkarnir mynduðu bandalag the left-wing parties formed an alliance |
| reference | ISLEX | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 9 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Latvian | |
| lexeme | kreiss | |
| meaning 1 | left | kreisā acs, roka, kāja left eye, hand, foot |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | (politics) left, left-wing (politically progressive, in favor of social change; revolutionary) | parlamenta kreisās partijas the left-wing parties of parliament |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 10 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Modern Greek | |
| lexeme | αριστερός | |
| meaning 1 | left | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | left (political) | |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 11 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Norwegian | |
| lexeme | venstre | |
| meaning 1 | left | venstre hånd left hand |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | left (political) | stemme Venstre to vote for the left |
| reference | BO | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 12 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Portuguese | |
| lexeme | esquerda | |
| meaning 1 | left | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | left (political) | A esquerda quer vencer a eleição, mas os partidos não chegam a um acordo. The left wants to win the election, but the parties can’t reach an agreement. |
| reference | <personally collected data> | |
| comment | ||
| NEW Realization 13 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Romanian | |
| lexeme | stâng | |
| meaning 1 | left | |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | left (political) | |
| reference | MDA2 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 14 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Serbian | |
| lexeme 1 | леви (levi) | |
| lexeme 2 | леви (levi), левичарски (levičarski) | |
| meaning 1 | left | лева нога, лева рука left leg, left hand |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | left (political) | лево крило неке странке, лева ориjентациjа, левичарске новине left wing of a political party, left political orientation, leftist newspaper |
| reference | Vujanitsh et al. 2007: 631 | |
| comment | ||
| ACCEPTED Realization 15 | ||
|---|---|---|
| type | Polysemy | |
| language | Swedish | |
| lexeme | vänster | |
| meaning 1 | left | hon satt på hans vänstra sida she was sitting on his left |
| direction | → | |
| meaning 2 | left (political) | vänsterregering a left government |
| reference | SAO | |
| comment | ||
Initially 'left side of a parliamentary assembly', then 'the parliamentarians who sit there; the ideas, the parties they represent, the public opinion that supports them'. Three political groups were represented in the French National Assembly at the start of the French Revolution. On the right sat the Feuillants, supporters of the constitutional monarchy; in the center were the Girondins, moderate supporters of the Republic; on the left sat the Jacobins, who advocated radical reforms. Since 1790.