Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗Being on the left or right, or toward the left or right; lateral. · Indirect; oblique; incidental.
A bounding straight edge of a two-dimensional shape. · A flat surface of a three-dimensional object; a face. · One half (left or right, top or bottom, front or back, etc.) of something or someone. · A region in a specified position with respect to something.
To ally oneself, be in an alliance, usually with "with" or rarely "in with" · To lean on one side. · To be or stand at the side of; to be on the side toward. · To suit; to pair; to match.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *seh₁-der. Proto-Germanic *sīdaz Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ Old English sīde Middle English side English side From Middle English side, from Old English sīde (“side, flank”), from Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ (“side, flank, edge, shore”), derived from *sīdaz, probably from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“long, lasting”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Siede (“side”), West Frisian side (“side”), Dutch zijde, zij (“side”), German Low German Sied (“side”), German Seite (“side”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, and Norwegian Nynorsk side (“side”), Swedish sida (“side”). The LGBTQ slang sense was coined by sex therapist and author Joe Kort in 2010 and popularized in 2013. The sense was coined by analogy with top and bottom and based on the metaphor of a box which has a top, bottom, and sides.
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- Inherited-form mentionsideenm
- Inherited-form mentionsīdeang · side, flank
- Inherited-form mention*sīdǭgem-pro · side, flank, edge, shore
- Derivation mention*seh₁-ine-pro · long, lasting
- Cognate mentionSiedestq · side
- Cognate mentionsidefy · side
- Cognate mentionzijdenl
- Cognate mentionSeitede · side
- Cognate mentionsidasv · side
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