English
lawyerspeak
From lawyer + -speak.
Formed from lawyer + -speak
Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- ‘to lie’
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Old Norse lag ‘layer; due place’
Old English lagu ‘law’
Middle English lawe ‘law’
Middle English lawiere ‘lawyer’
English lawyer
Today it means
noun The abstruse jargon of lawyers.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / lawyerspeak