英文词源
- law
- law: [10] Etymologically, a law is that which has been ‘laid’ down. English borrowed the word from Old Norse *lagu (replacing the native Old English ǣ ‘law’), which was the plural of lag ‘laying, good order’. This came ultimately from the prehistoric Germanic base *lag- ‘put’, from which English gets lay. It has no etymological connection with the semantically similar legal.
=> lay - law (n.)
- Old English lagu (plural laga, comb. form lah-) "law, ordinance, rule, regulation; district governed by the same laws," from Old Norse *lagu "law," collective plural of lag "layer, measure, stroke," literally "something laid down or fixed," from Proto-Germanic *lagan "put, lay" (see lay (v.)).
Replaced Old English æ and gesetnes, which had the same sense development as law. Compare also statute, from Latin statuere; German Gesetz "law," from Old High German gisatzida; Lithuanian istatymas, from istatyti "set up, establish." In physics, from 1660s. Law and order have been coupled since 1796.
中文词源
来自PIE*legh,放置，词源同lie,lay.引申词义放置的标杆，准绳，法规，法律等。词义演变比较doom,statute。
该词的英语词源请访问趣词词源英文版：law 词源，law 含义。
“法律”是立法机关制定的、国家政权保证执行的行为规则。Law在古英语中写作lagu，意即“something laid down（规定下来的事情）”。
law：法律，法规；规律，定律，法则
law的原义是“被放下的东西”,来源于史前日耳曼语leg-, lag-(放置)。
同源词：lay, lie, litter, low¹
