Yet in Greek you have "aristeros", left, on the left, where pretty much all the "arist" prefixes have to do with excellence. It is true that this sense of "left" carries a couple of negative senses, though: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text;jsessionid=10E4FE76715A1941219DE3AF46ECD2B0?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aalphabetic+letter%3D*a%3Aentry+group%3D302%3Aentry%3Da%29ristero%2Fs
Yet in Greek you have "aristeros", left, on the left, where pretty much all the "arist" prefixes have to do with excellence. It is true that this sense of "left" carries a couple of negative senses, though: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text;jsessionid=10E4FE76715A1941219DE3AF46ECD2B0?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0057%3Aalphabetic+letter%3D*a%3Aentry+group%3D302%3Aentry%3Da%29ristero%2Fs
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