PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
ALL DISPUTES ↗One scholarly question. Every attached source. The present editorial state, without pretending the last word has been written.
Neither. They are lexical cousins whose lineages converge at reconstructed *legh-. Law reaches it through a Scandinavian nominal formation; lay reaches it through an inherited causative verb.
/leɪ/ · verb
To put, place, or set down; an inherited causative verb in the same deep lie-and-lay family that produced law.
DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
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Places both words under the shared reconstructed root without a direct descent claim.
legh- reflex list: English lay and lawThe shared canonical root creates the connection without a false direct-parent edge.