Re: Weekly Vocab 29

On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 09:50:32 -0500, Tristan McLeay <zsau@...> 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).
As I recall Old English had the wonderful monophonemic word <Ç£> (ae-macron)
for 'law'.

Alex Fink