left, λαιᾷ μὲν ἴτυν προβάλεσθε (sc. χειρί) Tyrt. 15.3; λαιᾶς χειρός on the left hand, A. Pr. 714; πρὸς λαιᾷ χερί E. HF 159; λαιοῖσι on the left, Parm. 17; ἐπὶ λαιὰ κεκλιμένον Arat. 160, cf. Heliod. ap. Stob. 4.36.8; οἱ τὸ λ. ἔχοντες (sc. μέρος) D.S. 13.99; ἐς λαιὰν ἐσιόντων χῆρα (Dor.) IG 14.1721.3; τῇ λαιᾷ τοῦ δεξιοῦ λαβόμενος κέρως Philostr.Jun. Im. 4. (Poet., but not in Hom., who uses ἀριστερός: also in later Prose, τὰ διδόμενα τῇ δεξιᾷ δέχεσθαι τῇ λαιᾷ χειρί Prov. ap. Plb. 38.10.9, cf. Jul.
The corpus record
λαιός
laios2
left, on the left, on the left
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What it meant — LSJ
left, on the left, on the left
Where it came from
No etymology authority pointer is recorded for this lemma yet — an honest gap, not an omission. The etymological dictionaries (Beekes, Chantraine, Frisk) are matched incrementally.