*SET-U

PERMANENT JOURNEY RECORD / 36

COMPLETE ROUTE ↗
STAGE 01approximateNO SINGLE PIN

prehistoric

Indo-European prehistory

legal DOSSIER ↗
THE REVIEWED ROUTE CLAIM

A gather-root relationship is proposed for lēx, with *leǵ- and *sleǵ- analyses competing.

COORDINATES STORED
NO
HONEST TO PLOT
NO
PLACEMENT MODE
approximate
TIME PRECISION
unresolved
NUMERIC TIME BOUND
WITHHELD
CLAIM CITATIONS
2
THE TEMPORAL CLAIM

NO YEAR HAS BEEN INVENTED.

No source-backed numeric bounds are currently encoded for this route stage.

DIRECT STAGE-LEVEL PROVENANCE

AUDIT THE ROUTE CLAIM.

Every source below identifies its exact stance, locator, and evidentiary contribution.

  1. supports

    Indo-European Lexicon: *leg-

    Records the traditional gather-root grouping and lists Latin lex “law” and English legal among its reflexes.

    Pokorny Etymon leg̑-; Latin reflex lex and English legalAUDIT SOURCE ↗
  2. challenges

    The Indo-European Origin of Latin lex

    Proposes *sleg- rather than traditional *leg- and analyzes Latin lēx as an inherited root noun related to gathering; SET-U retains this as a competing scholarly route.

    Sections 1 and 6–7, Habis 44 (2013), pp. 7–14AUDIT SOURCE ↗