Re: Weekly Vocab 29

Tristan McLeay wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Nov 2003, Costentin Cornomorus wrote:
>
>
>>--- Tristan McLeay <zsau@...> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>Only these laws stave off famine.
>>>
>>>Aenoiaht faes ?? lettef hongre.
>>>
>>>-- I need an idea for law. Anyone have one?
>>>(West Germanic conlang at
>>>the same time as Old English.)
>>
>>What's wrong with OE lagu, that gives us "law"?
>
> Comes from Old Norse. By this stage, there's been no Norse influence on
> Ancient Føtisk.In Old Norse, it originally meant 'that which has been
> laid down'. I've contemplated using it, but I think I might prefer
> something more original (i.e. Old English is my main source for AF at this
> stage and I want to be a bit different. The same, but different).
Isn't there a cognate in OE? Was "lagu" introduced into Old Norse after
the Germanic langs split, or is the cognate too far from the meaning of
"lagu"?

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