Re: Weekly Vocab 29
| From: | Paul Bennett <paul-bennett@...> |
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| Date: | Monday, November 17, 2003, 18:41 |
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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:
>>
>> > -- 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).
AHD gives the PIE etymological source of English "deed", as dheE "to set,
put", more specifically dhe:ti "thing laid down or done, law, deed". Also
dhe:to "set down, created". Also dho:mo "doom, judgement". Also Gothic
do:ms "judgement". Also English deem from Old English de:man "to judge"
from Germanic "do:mjan" from Germanic "do:maz". Also dhEs which gives Latin
fa:s "divine law, right".
Paul
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