How did the word ‘right’ come to mean both a direction and ‘correct’?

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How did the word ‘right’ come to mean both a direction and ‘correct’?

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You might be interested to know that the word “sinister” comes from the word for “left”: https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/sinister-left-dexter-right-history

Right-handed people are more common. Left handed people were looked down upon.