Etymograph

English

lagman

Lagman comes from Swedish lagman ‘a chief judge of a tingsrätt and länsrätt’, and goes back to Old Norse lǫgmaðr ‘lawspeaker’.

  1. Old Norsec. 800–1350lǫgmaðr‘lawspeaker’
  2. Old Swedishmodernlaghman
  3. Swedishmodernlagman‘a chief judge of a tingsrätt and länsrätt’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1788same form

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Lineage

  1. Old Norsec. 800–1350lǫgmaðr‘lawspeaker’
  2. Old Swedishmodernlaghman
  3. Swedishmodernlagman‘a chief judge of a tingsrätt and länsrätt’
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1788same form

Earliest quotation: 1788, Allan Maconochie, Essay on the Origin and Structure of the European Legislatur: “There was a ſucceſſion of thirty-eight lagmans, which continued…”

Linked words

through Old Norse lǫgmaðr ‘lawspeaker’

lawman

Today it means

noun In medieval Scandinavia and parts of the Danelaw: a district official, magistrate or judge; a lawspeaker.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Old Norse lǫgmaðr / lagman

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