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Indo-European Lexicon: legh-

AUTHOR / EDITOR: Linguistics Research Center Editors
YEAR: Not recorded
PUBLISHER: University of Texas at Austin
DOI: Not recorded
SOURCE TYPE: research database
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RANKED REVEALS THAT CITE THIS SOURCE

RANK 74GRADE Asupports

Lay and law are cousins; the other lays are strangers.

The set-down verb and law meet at *legh-. Lay the poem and lay meaning non-clerical arrived through different French, Latin, and Greek histories.

*legh-

*legh- → *lagojanan → lecgan → leggen / leyen → lay

legh- reflex list: lay and law

Documents the real deep relationship.

lay dossier ↗truth record ↗86UNVEILING

SCHOLARLY DISAGREEMENT

DISPUTE POSITIONS THAT CITE THIS SOURCE

opencontextproposed

Is Proto-Germanic *lagojanan an attested form?

No. It is a reconstruction printed by Etymonline; comparative evidence supports the family, while exact notation and intermediate morphology remain analytical.

legh- reflex list

Supplies the comparative family evidence.

lay dossier ↗dispute record ↗

resolvedsupportsestablished

Does law descend from lay—or lay from law?

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.

legh- reflex list: English lay and law

Places both words under the shared reconstructed root without a direct descent claim.

lay dossier ↗dispute record ↗

CANONICAL RELATIONSHIP CLAIMS

EDGES THAT CITE THIS SOURCE

EDGE 465supportsestablished

lawe / laue → lagu

Middle English → Old English · inheritance

SOUND: Old English lagu continues into Middle English with loss of final unstressed -u and spelling variation including laue and lawe.
MEANING: Ordinance, rule, and legal order remain central.
SCHOLAR / EDITOR: Merriam-Webster · Etymonline · UT LRC editors

legh- reflex list: Old English lagu and Middle English law

Places both English stages in the cited comparative family.

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EDGE 467supportsprobable

lǫg / lög; lag → *lagam

Old Norse → Proto-Germanic · inheritance

SOUND: Old Norse lag and lög reflect a reconstructed Germanic *lagam formation in the lay-family.
MEANING: A layer, laying, or ordered placement supplies the legal sense “what is laid down.”
SCHOLAR / EDITOR: American Heritage · UT LRC · Cleasby–Vigfusson

legh- reflex list: Old Norse lag and lög; Germanic *lagam analysis

Supplies the comparative Germanic route.

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EDGE 468supportsprobable

lagam → legh-

Proto-Germanic → Proto-Indo-European · inheritance

SOUND: Proto-Germanic *lagam reflects an o-grade formation in the PIE *legh- “lie, lay” family.
MEANING: The concrete act of laying becomes an established order and law.
SCHOLAR / EDITOR: American Heritage · UT LRC · Etymonline editors

Pokorny etymon legh- and Germanic reflexes

Independently situates law and lay reflexes under the lie-and-lay root.

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EDGE 469supportsboundary

*legh- → UNKNOWN

Proto-Indo-European → Beyond secure reconstruction · knowledge boundary

SOUND: No older form is promoted beyond the comparative *legh- horizon.
MEANING: The site stops without treating the separate *leǵ- gather root or uncertain Latin comparison as an ancestor.
SCHOLAR / EDITOR: SET-U editorial boundary · UT LRC

Pokorny etymon legh-

Supports stopping at the reviewed reconstructed horizon.

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EDGE 512supportsprobable

lecgan → *lagojanan

Old English → Proto-Germanic · inheritance

SOUND: Old English lecgan continues reconstructed Proto-Germanic *lagojanan with West Germanic sound development.
MEANING: To cause something to lie yields the transitive verb to lay or set down.
SCHOLAR / EDITOR: Etymonline · UT LRC editors

legh- reflex list: Old English lecgan and Middle English leggen / leyen

Supplies comparative support for the English stages.

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EDGE 513supportsprobable

lagojanan → legh-

Proto-Germanic → Proto-Indo-European · inheritance

SOUND: Proto-Germanic *lagojanan is a causative formation in the PIE *legh- lie-and-lay family.
MEANING: A state of lying supplies a causative act of putting or setting down.
SCHOLAR / EDITOR: Etymonline · UT LRC editors

Pokorny etymon legh- and English lay reflexes

Independently situates lay in the lie-and-lay family.

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EDGE 514supportsboundary

*legh- → UNKNOWN

Proto-Indo-European → Beyond secure reconstruction · knowledge boundary

SOUND: No older form is promoted beyond the comparative *legh- horizon.
MEANING: The graph stops without merging the unrelated poem, non-clerical, or past-tense homonyms.
SCHOLAR / EDITOR: SET-U editorial boundary · UT LRC

Pokorny etymon legh-

Supports stopping at the reviewed reconstructed horizon.

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LEXICAL ATTESTATIONS