English
lawbook
Lawbook may come from Middle English *lawe-bok.
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500*lawe-bokuncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 2004lawbook
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
Earlier history uncertain.
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- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500*lawe-bokuncertain
- Englishearliest quotation 2004lawbook
Earliest quotation: 2004, Leslie Feinberg, Same-sex rights in East Germany: Legal and material progress: “At last, in 1968, the hated Paragraph 175 [which…”
Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- ‘to lie’
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Old Norse lag ‘layer, stratum, a laying in order’
Old Norse lǫg ‘law’
Old English lagu ‘law’
Middle English lawe ‘law’
English law
Proto-Germanic *bōks ‘letter’
Proto-West Germanic *bōk ‘inscribed billet, letter’
Old English bōc
Middle English bok ‘a document’
English book
Every English word from Middle English *lawe-bok
Today it means
noun A book in which laws are codified.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle English *lawe-bok / lawbook