Re: Weekly Vocab 29

Garth Wallace wrote:

> 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"?

In his Old English a historical linguistic companion Roger Lass says
that lagu cannot
come from Old Norse as the ON source logr is masculine o-stem and lagu
is a feminine u-stem


David Barrow