law
English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) enPR: lô, IPA(key): /lɔː/
- (US) enPR: lô, IPA(key): /lɔ/
- (cot–caught merger) enPR: lä, IPA(key): /lɑ/
- (General Australian) enPR: lô, IPA(key): /ɫoː/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Homophone: la (cot–caught merger)
- Homophone: lore (non-rhotic, horse–hoarse merger)
- Homophone: lure (non-rhotic, pour–poor merger)
Etymology 1
[edit]From Middle English lawe, laȝe, from Old English lagu (“law”), borrowed from Old Norse lǫg (“law”, literally “things laid down or firmly established”), originally the plural of lag (“layer, stratum, a laying in order, measure, stroke”), from Proto-Germanic *lagą (“that which is laid down”), from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie”). Cognate with Scots law (“law”), Icelandic lög (“things laid down, law”), Faroese lóg (“law”), Norwegian lov (“law”), Swedish lag (“law”), Danish lov (“law”), Finnish laki (“law”). Replaced Old English ǣ and ġesetnes. More at lay.
Not related to legal, nor to French loi, Spanish ley, all of which ultimately derive from Latin lēx, from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ- (“to gather”).
Noun
[edit]law (countable and uncountable, plural laws)
- (usually with "the") The body of binding rules and regulations, customs, and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities.
- 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XXII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- Not unnaturally, "Auntie" took this communication in bad part. […] Next day she […] tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head. Then, thwarted, the wretched creature went to the police for help; she was versed in the law, and had perhaps spared no pains to keep on good terms with the local constabulary.
- 1941, George Orwell, The Lion and the Unicorn, Pt. I:
- Here one comes upon an all-important English trait: the respect for constitutionalism and legality, the belief in "the law" as something above the State and above the individual, something which is cruel and stupid, of course, but at any rate incorruptible. It is not that anyone imagines the law to be just. Everyone knows that there is one law for the rich and another for the poor. But no one accepts the implications of this, everyone takes it for granted that the law, such as it is, will be respected, and feels a sense of outrage when it is not.
- The courts interpret the law but should not make it.
- In theory, entrapment is against the law.
- The body of such rules that pertain to a particular topic.
- property law
- commercial hunting and fishing law
- Common law, as contrasted with equity.
- A binding regulation or custom established in a community in this way.
- There is a law against importing wallabies.
- A new law forbids driving on that road.
- The court ruled that the executive order was not law and nullified it.
- 1915, G[eorge] A. Birmingham [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC:
- As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, […]. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. […] I do not suppose that it matters much in reality whether laws are made by dukes or cornerboys, but I like, as far as possible, to associate with gentlemen in private life.
- (more generally) A rule, such as:
- Any rule that must or should be obeyed, concerning behaviours and their consequences. (Compare mores.)
- "Do unto others as you wish them to do unto you" is a good law to follow.
- the law of self-preservation
- A rule or principle regarding the construction of language or art.
- the laws of playwriting and poetry
- 1997, Derek Prince, If you Want God's Best, →ISBN:
- The normal pronoun to use with "spirit" would be "it." But Jesus breaks the law of grammar and says not "when it," but "when he."
- A statement (in physics, etc) of an (observed, established) order or sequence or relationship of phenomena which is invariable under certain conditions. (Compare theory.)
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:law of nature
- 1992 March 2, Richard Preston, “The Mountains of Pi”, in The New Yorker:
- Observing pi is easier than studying physical phenomena, because you can prove things in mathematics, whereas you can't prove anything in physics. And, unfortunately, the laws of physics change once every generation.
- the laws of thermodynamics
- Newton's third law of motion states that to every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction.
- This is one of several laws derived from his general theory expounded in the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
- (mathematics, logic) A statement (of relation) that is true under specified conditions; a mathematical or logical rule.
- Mathematical laws can be proved purely through mathematics, without scientific experimentation.
- Any statement of the relation of acts and conditions to their consequences.
- the law of scarcity
- the law of supply and demand
- (linguistics) A sound law; a regular change in the pronunciation of a language.
- Grimm's law
- Dahl's law
- (cricket) One of the official rules of cricket as codified by the its (former) governing body, the MCC.
- Any rule that must or should be obeyed, concerning behaviours and their consequences. (Compare mores.)
- The control and order brought about by the observance of such rules.
- They worked to maintain law and order.
- It was a territory without law, marked by violence.
- (informal) A person or group that act(s) with authority to uphold such rules and order (for example, one or more police officers).
- Here comes the law — run!
- then the law arrived on the scene
- 1979, Frank Zappa (lyrics and music), “Joe's Garage”:
- That was Joe's first confrontation with "The Law" / Naturally, we were easy on him / One of our friendly counsellors gave him a donut / And told him to stick closer / To church-oriented social activities
- The profession that deals with such rules (as lawyers, judges, police officers, etc).
- He is studying for a career in law.
- She has practiced law in New York for twenty years.
- Jurisprudence, the field of knowledge which encompasses these rules.
- She went to university to study law.
- Litigation; legal action (as a means of maintaining or restoring order, redressing wrongs, etc).
- They were quick to go to law.
- (now uncommon) An allowance of distance or time (a head start) given to a weaker (human or animal) competitor in a race, to make the race more fair.
- 1889, Thomas Hughes, Tom Brown at Rugby, page 150:
- After a few minutes' waiting, two well-known runners, chosen for the hares, buckled on the four bags filled with scent, compared their watches with those of young Brooke and Thome, and started off at a long, slinging trot across the fields in the direction of Barby. Then the hounds clustered round Thome, who explained shortly, "They're to have six minutes' law."
- (aviation) A mode of operation of the flight controls of a fly-by-wire aircraft.
- normal law; alternate law; direct law
- (fantasy) One of two metaphysical forces ruling the world in some fantasy settings, also called order, and opposed to chaos.
- (law, chiefly historical) An oath sworn before a court, especially disclaiming a debt. (Chiefly in the phrases "wager of law", "wage one's law", "perform one's law", "lose one's law".)
- 1793, Richard Wooddeson, A Systematical View of the Laws of England, page 169:
- As to the depriving the defendant of waging his law, it was thought, the practice merited discouragement, as a temptation to perjury.
- 1846, Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd, A New Abridgment of the Law with Large Additions and Corrections:
- But, before the defendant takes the oath, the plaintiff is called by the crier thrice; and if he do not appear he becomes nonsuited, and then the defendant goes quit without taking his oath; and if he appear, and the defendant swear that he owes the plaintiff nothing, and the compurgators give it upon oath, that they believe he swears true, the plaintiff is barred for ever; for when a person has waged his law, it is as much as if a verdict had passed against the plaintiff; if the plaintiff do not appear to hear the defendant perform his law, so that he is nonsuit, he is not barred, but may bring a new action.
- 2013, William Paley Baildon, Court Rolls of the Manor of Wakefield: Volume 2, 1297 to 1309, →ISBN, page ix:
- A withdrawal from a wager of law was an admission of the point as to which the law was waged; the defaulter also incurred a fine (i, 297).
Derived terms
[edit]- above the law
- administrative law
- admiralty law
- against the law
- alternate law
- Amagat's law
- Amara's law
- Amdahl's law
- Ammon's law
- Ampère's circuital law
- Ampère's force law
- Ampère's law
- as a matter of law
- astrolaw
- attorney-at-law
- attorney at law
- Atwood's Law
- Avogadro's law
- Baby Moses law
- bad facts make bad law
- basic law
- Baxter's law
- Beer-Lambert-Bouguer law
- Beer-Lambert law
- Beer's law
- Benford's law
- Bennett's law
- Betteridge's law, Betteridge's law of headlines
- Betz's law
- Bidoof's Law
- BigLaw
- black letter law
- black-letter law
- blawg
- blue law
- blue sky law
- Bode's law
- book law
- Bouguer's law
- Bowley's law
- Boyle's law
- Bradford’s law
- Bragg's law
- Brewster's law
- Brooks's law
- Buys Ballot's law
- bye-law
- by-law
- bylaw
- canon law
- case law
- Cassie's law
- Charles' law
- Charles's law
- chemical law
- Christian sharia law
- chthonic law
- civil law
- civil law notary
- club law
- color of law
- combined gas law
- commercial law
- common-law
- common law
- common-law marriage
- company law
- con law
- conservation law
- constitutional law
- contract law
- Conway's law
- Cope's law
- corn law
- corn laws
- cosine law
- Coulomb's law
- counterlaw
- court of law
- Courvoisier's law
- Cowgill's law
- criminal law
- cube-square law
- Curie's law
- customary international law
- cyberlaw
- Dalton's law
- Danth's law
- Darcy's law
- decisional law
- De Morgan's law
- de Morgan's laws
- Descartes law
- direct law
- divine law
- Dollo's law
- due process of law
- Duverger's law
- Dybo's law
- e-law
- Emmert's law
- employment law
- Engel's law
- English and Welsh law
- English law
- Enoch Arden law
- Eroom's law
- Eurolaw
- every law has a loophole
- every law has its loophole
- extreme risk law
- family law
- Faraday's law
- Fechner's law
- federal law
- feudal law
- Finagle's law
- financial law
- fiscal law
- Fitts' law
- Fitts's law
- Fourier's law
- gas law
- Gauss's law
- Gay-Lussac's law
- Geiger-Nuttall law
- Godwin's law
- Goodhart's law
- good law
- Good Samaritan law
- Graham's law
- granger law
- Granger law
- Grassmann's law
- Gresham's law
- Grimm's law
- Grosch's law
- Grotthuss-Draper law
- Gustafson's law
- Haldane's law
- Hardy-Weinberg law
- have the law of someone
- Healey's first law of holes
- Healey's law
- Heaps' law
- heir-at-law
- heir at law
- Hellin's law
- Henry's law
- Henry's law constant
- Hess's law
- Hilt's law
- Hirt's law
- Hofstadter's law
- Hooke's law
- Hubble law
- Hubble's law
- Hume's law
- Hyrum's law
- ideal gas law
- inheritance law
- in-law
- inlaw
- international humanitarian law
- international law
- in the eyes of the law
- in the name of the law
- into law
- inverse-square law
- IT law
- Jim Crow law
- Jordan's law
- Joule's law
- judge-made law
- Jurin's law
- Kepler's law
- Kepler's laws of planetary motion
- Kerchoff's laws
- Kirchhoff's current law
- Kirchhoff's voltage law
- Kohlrausch's law
- labor law
- labour law
- Lambert-Beer law
- Lambert's cosine law
- Lambert's emission law
- Lambert's law
- Lanchester's law
- law-abiding
- law agent
- law and order
- law binding
- lawbook
- lawbot
- lawbreaker
- law-breaker
- lawbreaking
- law calf
- lawclerk
- law clerk
- lawcode
- law court
- lawcraft
- law day
- law dictionary
- law-enforcement
- law enforcement
- lawfare
- law firm
- lawful
- lawgiver
- lawgiving
- law Latin
- law leather
- lawless
- lawlike
- law list
- law lord, Law Lord
- lawly
- lawmaker, law-maker
- lawmaking
- law merchant
- lawmonger
- law of attraction
- law of averages
- law of conservation of mass
- law of contradiction
- law of correspondence
- law of cosines
- law of diminishing marginal utility
- law of diminishing returns
- law of double negation
- law of excluded middle
- law of Hobson-Jobson
- law of holes
- law of identity
- law of large numbers
- law of love
- law of majestas
- law of markets
- law of nations
- law of nature
- law of noncontradiction
- law of non-contradiction
- law of nontriviality
- law of obligations
- law of one
- law of one price
- law of parsimony
- law of sines
- law of small numbers
- law of tangents
- law of the excluded middle
- law of the jungle
- law of the land
- law of the Medes and the Persians
- law of the sea
- law of the tongue
- law of unintended consequences
- law of war
- law review
- lawscape
- law school
- lawsome
- lawspeaker
- lawsuit
- law suit
- law-trained
- law unto oneself
- law-way
- law-ways
- lay down the law
- Leavitt law
- Leibniz's law
- Lemaître's law
- lemon law
- Lenz's law
- letter of the law
- Lewis's law
- limb of the law
- Little's law
- Littlewood's law
- long arm of the law
- Lotka's law
- Lyman's law
- lynch law
- Maas's law
- Maine law
- malice in law
- man of law
- Marconi's law
- Mariotte's law
- maritime law
- martial law
- matter of law
- Meckel-Serres law
- Meillet's law
- Menzerath's law
- metalaw
- Metcalfe's law
- Miles' law
- Mitscherlich's law
- mob law
- Mooers's law
- Moore's law
- Muphry's law
- Murphy's law
- natural law
- necessity knows no law
- neurolaw
- Newton's first law
- Newton's law of cooling
- Newton's law of gravitation
- Newton's laws of motion
- Newton's second law
- Newton's third law
- nonlaw
- normal law
- Ohm's law
- Okun's law
- one's word is law
- operation of law
- organic law
- outlaw
- paenultima law
- Panini's law
- Pareto's law
- Parkinson's law
- Pascal's law
- Paschen's law
- Peirce's law
- penal law
- penultima law
- periodic law
- personal law
- physical law
- Plateau's law
- Poe's law
- Poiseuille's law
- poor law
- positive law
- possession is nine points of the law
- possession is nine-tenths of the law
- Postel's law
- Pournelle's law
- power law
- powerlaw
- precedential law
- prelaw
- Price's law
- private international law
- private law
- procedural law
- property law
- pseudolaw
- public international law
- public law
- question of law
- Raoult's law
- Rayleigh-Jeans law
- red flag law
- red letter law
- retroactive law
- Ribot's law
- Riepl's law
- Roman-Dutch law
- Roman law
- Romeo and Juliet law
- rule of law
- Salic law
- Say's law
- Schneier's law
- scofflaw
- Scots law
- Scottish law
- sergeant-at-law
- serjeant-at-law
- sharia law
- shield law
- Shine the Light Law
- Sievers' law
- Sievers's law
- Sieverts' law
- sign into law
- sine law
- Snell's law
- Sod's law
- Son of Sam law
- sound law
- space law
- spirit of the law
- square-cube law
- stand-your-ground law
- Stang's law
- Stark-Einstein law
- state law
- statute law
- statutory law
- Stefan-Boltzmann law
- stepmother-in-law
- Stigler's law
- Stokes' law
- Sturgeon's law
- sublaw
- substantive law
- sumptuary law
- sunset law
- sunshine law
- sus law
- suss law
- Szemerényi's law
- take law into one's own hands
- take the law into one's own hands
- Talbot-Plateau law
- Talbot's law
- tax law
- the law is a ass
- the law is an ass
- there oughta be a law
- there oughtta be a law
- there ought to be a law
- thief in law
- threefold law
- three laws of robotics
- three-strikes law
- Titius-Bode law
- Torricelli's law
- tort law
- Tranzschel's law
- TRAP law
- trigger law
- trite law
- trust law
- unlaw
- unwritten law
- van der Waals law
- Van der Waals law
- van 't Hoff's law
- Verner's law
- Vierordt's law
- Virchow's law
- water law
- Weber-Fechner law
- Welsh law
- Westlaw
- Wien's displacement law
- windward of the law
- Winter's law
- Wolff's law
- Worthington's law
- Yog's Law
- Zawinski's law
- zero-one law
- Zipf's law
Translations
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Verb
[edit]law (third-person singular simple present laws, present participle lawing, simple past and past participle lawed)
- (obsolete) To work as a lawyer; to practice law.
- 1889, New York (State). Court of Appeals, New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs, page 71:
- That was in 1877 you were lawing with Herdick?
- 1897, The Scroll of Phi Delta Theta - Volume 21, page 210:
- J. H. Turner is married and lawing in Milwaukee.
- 1923, Briton Hadden, Time - Volume 29, page 59:
- The American Bar Association ruefully admits that the legal profession is overcrowded, especially in large cities. It has a committee studying the situation. Last week an editorial in the New York Law Journal urged a youthful revolt against the city, twanged an idyll of lawing in the country.
- (transitive, intransitive, chiefly dialectal) To prosecute or sue (someone), to litigate.
- 1860, George Eliot (Mary Anne Lewes), The Mill on the Floss:
- Your husband's [...] so given to lawing, they say. I doubt he'll leave you poorly off when he dies.
- 1886, Charles Dudley Warner, Their Pilgrimage, page 144:
- "I like folks to be up and down and square," she began saying, as she vigilantly watched the effect of her culinary skill upon the awed little party. "Yes, I've got a regular hotel license; you bet I have. There's been folks lawed in this town for sellin' a meal of victuals and not having one."
- 2014, Joseph Andrew Orser, The Lives of Chang and Eng: Siam's Twins in Nineteenth-Century America:
- “So I said to her, 'Well, no man ever made anything lawing with his wife, so, if your mind is set on having a divorce and the children you will want plenty to raise them with,' so I deed her the farm in Sumner county and everything on it—horses, mules, machinery, everything.”
- 1860, George Eliot (Mary Anne Lewes), The Mill on the Floss:
- (nonstandard) To rule over (with a certain effect) by law; to govern.
- 1939, Henry Green Hodges, City management: theory and practice of municipal administration:
- At its 1933 session, the Kansas legislature provided for funding outstanding bills and floating debts of those cities which could not make payment by a fixed date. By this stroke of its imagination, the legislature lawed all Kansas cities onto a "cash" basis and admonished them to stay there.
- 1969, Aryan Path - Volume 40, page 338:
- Earth lies in the chorus of the stars' congregation in the lawed line of their movement, in the balanced rotation of their light, bound by that lawed line, conceived in the focus of that turning; a vessel fashioned on the wheel of endless time.
- 1979, Gokhale, Surat In The Seventeenth Century, →ISBN, page 27:
- Nicholas Downton (February 1615) says of the people of Surat: "a mixt people, quiet, peaceable, very subtle; civil, and universally governed under one King, but diversely lawed and customed".
- 2007, Henry Grenryk Ledesma, The Little Book: The Sound of the Seventh Trumpet, page 38:
- So that, when GOD said, “Let there be light:” Behold the first created light burst out unto its glory (here GOD lawed the power of heat, fire, light, melting, cooling, and freezing)
- 2011, Brian Freemantle, The Iron Cage, →ISBN:
- Beyond the ocher and yellow-washed buildings, French colonial with a suggestion of Beau Geste from the castellated balconies, it is an arm-grabbing, loosely lawed bazaar of a place.
- (informal) To enforce the law.
- 1918, Eldred Kurtz Means, E.K. Means, page 50:
- De gram jury lawed me all de time an' dat place got too hot.
- 1972, Bill Peterson, Coaltown revisited: an Appalachian notebook, page 28:
- The only time I ever got lawed [arrested] was for the union. Happened three times.
- 2008, Ron McLarty, Art in America: A Novel, →ISBN:
- So we're on the road with the micks, maybe a mile from the precinct, and Reedy just pulls over, takes them out onto the Commons, takes off the cuffs, and we knock about twenty pounds of shit out of them.” Petey sensed the agent watching him talk and tried to explain it all another way. “What I mean is, lawing used to be pretty damn pure.
- 2013, J B Bergstad, Hyde's Corner - Book II - In The Name of Vengeance, →ISBN:
- The sheriff jabbed his thumb at his chest. "I run this shebang. Been doing so for forty-six years. You think you can come in here and preach lawing to me?
- To subject to legal restrictions.
- 1895, The Chronicle - Volumes 55-56, page 125:
- Insurance may fairly be said to head the list of objects of legislative interference. It has been lawed and lawed until it is nearly outlawed, and the cry for more continues to go up unsatisfied
- 1914, California Outlook - Volume 16, page lxx:
- No man knew what his water rights were until they had been lawed over, and lawed over, and lawed over again.
- 1920, Weight and Measure, page 34:
- It has been truly said that we are lawed into existence and lawed through life and lawed out of it more than any other nation
- 1994, Lisa Lewis, The Unbeliever, →ISBN, page 58:
- She knows what's tethered underwater. Not Children's bodies, but their toys, their lost, Lawed-against pleasures
See also
[edit]Etymology 2
[edit]From Middle English lawe, from Old English hlāw (“burial mound”). Also spelled low.
Noun
[edit]law (plural laws)
- (obsolete) A tumulus of stones.
- (Northern England, Scotland, archaic) A hill.
- 1892, Robert Louis Stevenson, “The Lantern-bearers”, in Across the Plains: With Other Memories and Essays, London: Chatto & Windus, […], →OCLC, part I, page 209:
- [Y]ou might climb the Law, where the whale's jawbone stood landmark in the buzzing wind, and behold the face of many counties, and the smoke and spires of many towns, and the sails of distant ships.
Etymology 3
[edit]From Middle English lagh, from Old Norse lag (“that which is lying or laid, position, price, way, sting, blow”), from Proto-Germanic *lagą (“that which is laid”). Cognate with Scots lauch (“one's tavern-reckoning or one's share of the cost, a score; a payment for drink or entertainment”), Middle English lai (“one's share of expenses, one's bill or account”).
Noun
[edit]law (plural laws)
Related terms
[edit]Etymology 4
[edit]Interjection
[edit]law
- (dated) An exclamation of mild surprise; lawks; in interjections, a minced oath for Lord.
- 1791-92, Jane Austen, ‘The Three Sisters’, Juvenilia:
- ‘Do tell me once for all, whether you intend to marry Mr Watts or not?’ ‘Law Mama, how can I tell you what I don't know myself?’
- 1870, Arthur William A'Beckett, The Tomahawk: A Saturday Journal of Satire, page 104:
- […] and my boots were a leetle 'eavier than they are, law bless my soul! I'd do it myself.
- 2024 March 1, Arthur Sketchley, Mrs. Brown on the Skating Rink, BoD – Books on Demand, →ISBN, page 127:
- Arthur Sketchley. But, law bless my 'art , it's werry orful to be a forriner, as I were a-thinkin', and never be able to make yourself understood, except in that gibberish,
- 1791-92, Jane Austen, ‘The Three Sisters’, Juvenilia:
Related terms
[edit]- laws (“minced oath for 'Lord'”)
References
[edit]- 2021 October 21, Harold F. Farwell, J. Karl Nicholas, Smoky Mountain Voices: A Lexicon of Southern Appalachian Speech Based on the Research of Horace Kephart, University Press of Kentucky, →ISBN:
- Laws-a-mighty me! Law bless my heart! Laws-a-mercy! (J 2:607). "Laws-a-marcy, how it does hurt!" (B 303). "I'm a-waitin' fer Jim Johnson, and with the help of the Lawd I'm goin' to blow his damn head off" (B 347).
References
[edit]Anagrams
[edit]Fula
[edit]Adverb
[edit]law
References
[edit]- Oumar Bah, Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.
Khumi Chin
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Kuki-Chin *khlaa, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-la. Cognates include Tibetan ཟླ་བ (zla ba) and Burmese လ (la.).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]law
References
[edit]- R. Shafer (1944) “Khimi Grammar and Vocabulary”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, volume 11, number 2, page 422
- K. E. Herr (2011) The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin[1], Payap University, page 42
Lower Sorbian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Slavic *lьvъ, from Proto-Indo-European *lewo-.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]law m animal (feminine lawowka, diminutive lawk)
Declension
[edit]Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928) “law”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
- Starosta, Manfred (1999) “law”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
Middle English
[edit]Noun
[edit]law
- Alternative form of lawe
Scots
[edit]Noun
[edit]law (plural laws)
Adjective
[edit]law (comparative lawer, superlative lawest)
Sranan Tongo
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Probably from Kongo kilawu, from Proto-Bantu *dadU.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]law
- To be crazy
- ca. 1765, Pieter van Dyk, Nieuwe en nooit bevoorens geziene Onderwyzinge in het Bastert, of Neeger Engels, zoo als het zelve in de Hollandsze Colonien gebruikt word [New and unprecedented instruction in Bastard or Negro English, as it is used in the Dutch colonies][2], Frankfurt/Madrid: Iberoamericana, page 22:
- Joe lau te moesi
- [Yu law tumsi]
- You are too crazy
- To drive somebody crazy
- 2005, Nyun-Grontapuvertaling fu den Kresten Griki Buku fu Bijbel [New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures][3], Brooklyn, NY: Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania, Acts of the Apostles, chapter 26, verse 24:
- Di Paulus kaba taki gi ensrefi, Festus taki nanga wan tranga sten: „Yu e kon law, Paulus! Den kefalek sani di yu leri e law yu!”
- When Paul was done speaking up for himself, Festus said with a loud voice: “You lost your mind, Paul! The great things you learnt are driving you insane!”
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[edit]Inherited from Proto-Slavic *lь̀vъ.
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[edit]law m animal
- (zoology) lion (Panthera leo)
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