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Right — American Heritage Dictionary
- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- American Heritage Dictionary Editors
- YEAR
- 2022
- PUBLISHER
- HarperCollins
- DOI
- Not recorded
- SOURCE TYPE
- historical dictionary
- EXTERNAL RECORD
- OPEN ORIGINAL ↗
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RANK 104GRADE Asupports
Right was straight before morality claimed it.
Old English riht and Germanic *rehtaz belong to a reconstructed straight-and-direct family. Justice and correctness are historical extensions inside the same inherited word.
*h₃reg̑-
*h₃reg̑- → *h₃reg- → *reg-to- → *rehtaz → riht → right → right
Definitions, etymology, and straight sensePreserves the straight, correct, and just semantic cluster.
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resolvedcontextestablished
Did right begin only as a moral judgment?
No. The reviewed history joins straight, correct, just, proper, and directional senses inside one inherited family.
Definitions 1–12 and etymologyPreserves moral, factual, geometric, and straight senses.
resolvedsupportsestablished
Is political right the prehistoric source of the word?
No. American Heritage treats the political sense as a later seating-based development in legislative assemblies.
Etymology note for the political nounAttributes the political sense to legislative seating.
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EDGE 717contextestablished
right → right
Present-Day English → Middle English · continuation
- SOUND
- Modern right continues Middle English right through English spelling and sound history.
- MEANING
- Justice, correctness, suitability, straightness, and direction remain part of a polysemous word.
- SCHOLAR / EDITOR
- Merriam-Webster Editors · American Heritage Dictionary Editors
Headword definitions and etymologyIndependently preserves straight, just, correct, and directional senses.
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