Take the 2-minute tour ×  Does anyone know of a connection, or
some sort of established historical/etymological explanation why
in a few languages, "the opposite of left" and "truthful claim
to" are the same or seemingly related words? Do they all have a
common root? Did they develop independently?     • English:
right - right   • French: droit - droit   • German: rechts -
Recht   • Polish: prawo - prawo   • Russian: право - право
Maybe some people can enhance this list by adding more examples?
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this question  closed as off topic by Alenanno, MετάEd,
kiamlaluno, StoneyB, Mitch Sep 16 '12 at 23:44   Does
etymonline.com/index.php?term=right not explain this? That is,
the right hand is the correct hand: that concept may be common
to many cultures and incorporated into language. –  Andrew Leach
Sep 14 '12 at 8:14 Good analogy, and also thnx for the link. – 
Rafael Cichocki Sep 14 '12 at 8:35 This question is more suited
on Linguistics SE as is, since