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<a class="mw-jump-link" href="#mw-head">Jump to navigation</a> <a class="mw-jump-link" href="#searchInput">Jump to search</a> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="disambig-see-also">See also: <a href="/wiki/LAW" title="LAW">LAW</a>, <a href="/wiki/Law" title="Law">Law</a>, and <a href="/wiki/%C5%82aw" title="ław">ław</a></div> <div id="toc" class="toc" role="navigation" aria-labelledby="mw-toc-heading"><input type="checkbox" role="button" id="toctogglecheckbox" class="toctogglecheckbox" style="display:none" /><div class="toctitle" lang="en" dir="ltr"><h2 id="mw-toc-heading">Contents</h2><label class="toctogglelabel" for="toctogglecheckbox"></label></div> <ul> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#English">1 English</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-2"><a href="#Pronunciation">1.1 Pronunciation</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#Etymology_1">1.2 Etymology 1</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-4"><a href="#Noun">1.2.1 Noun</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-4 tocsection-5"><a href="#Derived_terms">1.2.1.1 Derived terms</a></li> <li class="toclevel-4 tocsection-6"><a href="#Translations">1.2.1.2 Translations</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-7"><a href="#Verb">1.2.2 Verb</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-8"><a href="#See_also">1.2.3 See also</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9"><a href="#Etymology_2">1.3 Etymology 2</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-10"><a href="#Noun_2">1.3.1 Noun</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-4 tocsection-11"><a href="#Derived_terms_2">1.3.1.1 Derived terms</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-12"><a href="#Etymology_3">1.4 Etymology 3</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-13"><a href="#Noun_3">1.4.1 Noun</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-4 tocsection-14"><a href="#Related_terms">1.4.1.1 Related terms</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-15"><a href="#Etymology_4">1.5 Etymology 4</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-16"><a href="#Interjection">1.5.1 Interjection</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-4 tocsection-17"><a href="#Related_terms_2">1.5.1.1 Related terms</a></li> <li class="toclevel-4 tocsection-18"><a href="#References">1.5.1.2 References</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-19"><a href="#References_2">1.6 References</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-20"><a href="#Anagrams">1.7 Anagrams</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-21"><a href="#Fula">2 Fula</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-22"><a href="#Adverb">2.1 Adverb</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-23"><a href="#References_3">2.2 References</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-24"><a href="#Khumi_Chin">3 Khumi Chin</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-25"><a href="#Etymology">3.1 Etymology</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-26"><a href="#Pronunciation_2">3.2 Pronunciation</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-27"><a href="#Noun_4">3.3 Noun</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-28"><a href="#References_4">3.4 References</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-29"><a href="#Lower_Sorbian">4 Lower Sorbian</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-30"><a href="#Etymology_5">4.1 Etymology</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-31"><a href="#Pronunciation_3">4.2 Pronunciation</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-32"><a href="#Noun_5">4.3 Noun</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-33"><a href="#Declension">4.3.1 Declension</a></li> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-34"><a href="#Derived_terms_3">4.3.2 Derived terms</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-35"><a href="#Further_reading">4.4 Further reading</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-36"><a href="#Middle_English">5 Middle English</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-37"><a href="#Noun_6">5.1 Noun</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-38"><a href="#Scots">6 Scots</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-39"><a href="#Noun_7">6.1 Noun</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-40"><a href="#Adjective">6.2 Adjective</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-41"><a href="#Sranan_Tongo">7 Sranan Tongo</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-42"><a href="#Etymology_6">7.1 Etymology</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-43"><a href="#Pronunciation_4">7.2 Pronunciation</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-44"><a href="#Verb_2">7.3 Verb</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-45"><a href="#Derived_terms_4">7.3.1 Derived terms</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-46"><a href="#Upper_Sorbian">8 Upper Sorbian</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-47"><a href="#Etymology_7">8.1 Etymology</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-48"><a href="#Pronunciation_5">8.2 Pronunciation</a></li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-49"><a href="#Noun_8">8.3 Noun</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-50"><a href="#Declension_2">8.3.1 Declension</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-51"><a href="#References_5">8.4 References</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-52"><a href="#Welsh">9 Welsh</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-53"><a href="#Noun_9">9.1 Noun</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-54"><a href="#Mutation">9.1.1 Mutation</a></li> </ul> </li> <li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-55"><a href="#Noun_10">9.2 Noun</a> <ul> <li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-56"><a href="#Mutation_2">9.2.1 Mutation</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="English">English</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: English">edit</a>]</div> <div class="interproject-box sister-wikipedia sister-project noprint floatright"><div style="float: left;"><figure class="mw-halign-none" 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Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:English_pronunciation" title="Appendix:English pronunciation">key</a>): /lɑ/ <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r50165410"><table class="audiotable" style="vertical-align: middle; display: inline-block; list-style: none; line-height: 1em; border-collapse: collapse; margin: 0;"><tbody><tr><td>Audio (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_English" class="extiw" title="w:American English">US</a>):</td><td class="audiofile"><audio id="mwe_player_1" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="175" style="width:175px;" data-durationhint="1" data-mwtitle="en-us-law.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/En-us-law.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/1/17/En-us-law.ogg/En-us-law.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" 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href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_English_phonology" class="extiw" title="w:Australian English phonology">General Australian</a>):</td><td class="audiofile"><audio id="mwe_player_2" controls="" preload="none" data-mw-tmh="" class="mw-file-element" width="175" style="width:175px;" data-durationhint="2" data-mwtitle="en-au-law.ogg" data-mwprovider="wikimediacommons"><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/63/En-au-law.ogg" type="audio/ogg; codecs="vorbis"" data-width="0" data-height="0" /><source src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/6/63/En-au-law.ogg/En-au-law.ogg.mp3" type="audio/mpeg" data-transcodekey="mp3" data-width="0" data-height="0" /></audio></td><td class="audiometa" style="font-size: 80%;">(<a href="/wiki/File:en-au-law.ogg" title="File:en-au-law.ogg">file</a>)</td></tr></tbody></table></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#homophone" title="Appendix:Glossary">Homophone</a>: <a href="/wiki/la#English" title="la">la</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cot%E2%80%93caught_merger" class="extiw" title="w:Cot–caught merger">cot–caught merger</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#homophone" title="Appendix:Glossary">Homophone</a>: <a href="/wiki/lore#English" title="lore">lore</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoticity_in_English" class="extiw" title="w:Rhoticity in English">non-rhotic</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/horse%E2%80%93hoarse_merger" class="extiw" title="w:horse–hoarse merger">horse–hoarse merger</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#homophone" title="Appendix:Glossary">Homophone</a>: <a href="/wiki/lure#English" title="lure">lure</a> (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhoticity_in_English" class="extiw" title="w:Rhoticity in English">non-rhotic</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cure%E2%80%93force_merger" class="extiw" title="w:Cure–force merger">pour–poor merger</a>)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etymology_1">Etymology 1</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Etymology 1">edit</a>]</div> From <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_English" class="extiw" title="w:Middle English">Middle English</a> <a href="/wiki/lawe#Middle_English" title="lawe">lawe</a>, <a href="/wiki/la%C8%9De#Middle_English" title="laȝe">laȝe</a>, from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English" class="extiw" title="w:Old English">Old English</a> <a href="/wiki/lagu#Old_English" title="lagu">lagu</a> (“law”), borrowed from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Norse" class="extiw" title="w:Old Norse">Old Norse</a> <a href="/wiki/l%C7%ABg#Old_Norse" title="lǫg">lǫg</a> (“law”, literally “things laid down or firmly established”), originally the plural of <a href="/wiki/lag#Old_Norse" title="lag">lag</a> (“layer, stratum, a laying in order, measure, stroke”), from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Germanic_language" class="extiw" title="w:Proto-Germanic language">Proto-Germanic</a> <a href="/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/lag%C4%85" title="Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/lagą">*lagą</a> (“that which is laid down”), from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language" class="extiw" title="w:Proto-Indo-European language">Proto-Indo-European</a> <a href="/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/leg%CA%B0-" title="Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/legʰ-">*legʰ-</a> (“to lie”). Cognate with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language" class="extiw" title="w:Scots language">Scots</a> <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Scots">law</a> (“law”), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_language" class="extiw" title="w:Icelandic language">Icelandic</a> <a href="/wiki/l%C3%B6g#Icelandic" title="lög">lög</a> (“things laid down, law”), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faroese_language" class="extiw" title="w:Faroese language">Faroese</a> <a href="/wiki/l%C3%B3g#Faroese" title="lóg">lóg</a> (“law”), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_language" class="extiw" title="w:Norwegian language">Norwegian</a> <a href="/wiki/lov#Norwegian" title="lov">lov</a> (“law”), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_language" class="extiw" title="w:Swedish language">Swedish</a> <a href="/wiki/lag#Swedish" title="lag">lag</a> (“law”), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_language" class="extiw" title="w:Danish language">Danish</a> <a href="/wiki/lov#Danish" title="lov">lov</a> (“law”), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_language" class="extiw" title="w:Finnish language">Finnish</a> <a href="/wiki/laki#Finnish" title="laki">laki</a> (“law”). Replaced <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English" class="extiw" title="w:Old English">Old English</a> <a href="/wiki/%C3%A6#Old_English" title="æ">ǣ</a> and <a href="/wiki/gesetnes#Old_English" title="gesetnes">ġesetnes</a>. More at <a href="/wiki/lay#English" title="lay">lay</a>. Not related to <a href="/wiki/legal#English" title="legal">legal</a>, nor to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_language" class="extiw" title="w:French language">French</a> <a href="/wiki/loi#French" title="loi">loi</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language" class="extiw" title="w:Spanish language">Spanish</a> <a href="/wiki/ley#Spanish" title="ley">ley</a>, all of which ultimately derive from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin" class="extiw" title="w:Latin">Latin</a> <a href="/wiki/lex#Latin" title="lex">lēx</a>, from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language" class="extiw" title="w:Proto-Indo-European language">Proto-Indo-European</a> <a href="/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/le%C7%B5-" title="Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/leǵ-">*leǵ-</a> (“to gather”). <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Noun">Noun</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Noun">edit</a>]</div> law (<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#countable" title="Appendix:Glossary">countable</a> and <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#uncountable" title="Appendix:Glossary">uncountable</a>, plural <a href="/wiki/laws#English" title="laws">laws</a>) <ol><li>(usually with "the") The <a href="/wiki/body" title="body">body</a> of <a href="/wiki/binding" title="binding">binding</a> <a href="/wiki/rule" title="rule">rules</a> and <a href="/wiki/regulation" title="regulation">regulations</a>, <a href="/wiki/custom" title="custom">customs</a>, and <a href="/wiki/standard" title="standard">standards</a> <a href="/wiki/establish" title="establish">established</a> in a <a href="/wiki/community" title="community">community</a> by its <a href="/wiki/legislative" title="legislative">legislative</a> and <a href="/wiki/judicial" title="judicial">judicial</a> <a href="/wiki/authority" title="authority">authorities</a>. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">1918, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._B._Maxwell" class="extiw" title="w:W. B. Maxwell">W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell</a>, chapter XXII, in <cite>The Mirror and the Lamp</cite>, Indianapolis, Ind.: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobbs-Merrill_Company" class="extiw" title="w:Bobbs-Merrill Company">The Bobbs-Merrill Company</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/4293071">→OCLC</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">Not unnaturally, "Auntie" took this communication in bad part. […] Next day she […] tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head. Then, thwarted, the wretched creature went to the police for help; she was versed in the law, and had perhaps spared no pains to keep on good terms with the local constabulary.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1941, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Orwell" class="extiw" title="w:George Orwell">George Orwell</a>, <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Lion_and_the_Unicorn:_Socialism_and_the_English_Genius" class="extiw" title="w:The Lion and the Unicorn: Socialism and the English Genius">The Lion and the Unicorn</a></cite>, Pt. I:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">Here one comes upon an all-important <a href="/wiki/English#English" title="English">English</a> trait: the respect for constitutionalism and legality, the belief in "the law" as something above the State and above the individual, something which is cruel and stupid, of course, but at any rate incorruptible. It is not that anyone imagines the law to be just. Everyone knows that there is one law for the <a href="/wiki/rich#English" title="rich">rich</a> and another for the <a href="/wiki/poor#English" title="poor">poor</a>. But no one accepts the implications of this, everyone takes it for granted that the law, such as it is, will be respected, and feels a sense of outrage when it is not.</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul> <dl><dd><div class="h-usage-example">The courts interpret the law but should not make it.</div></dd> <dd><div class="h-usage-example">In theory, <a href="/wiki/entrapment#English" title="entrapment">entrapment</a> is against the law.</div></dd></dl> <ol><li>The <a href="/wiki/body" title="body">body</a> of such rules that <a href="/wiki/pertain" title="pertain">pertain</a> to a particular <a href="/wiki/topic" title="topic">topic</a>. <dl><dd><div class="h-usage-example">property law</div></dd> <dd><div class="h-usage-example">commercial hunting and fishing law</div></dd></dl></li> <li><a href="/wiki/common_law" title="common law">Common law</a>, as <a href="/wiki/contrast" title="contrast">contrasted</a> with <a href="/wiki/equity" title="equity">equity</a>.</li></ol></li> <li>A <a href="/wiki/binding" title="binding">binding</a> <a href="/wiki/regulation" title="regulation">regulation</a> or <a href="/wiki/custom" title="custom">custom</a> <a href="/wiki/establish" title="establish">established</a> in a <a href="/wiki/community" title="community">community</a> in this way. <dl><dd><div class="h-usage-example">There is a law against importing wallabies.</div></dd> <dd><div class="h-usage-example">A new law forbids driving on that road.</div></dd> <dd><div class="h-usage-example">The court ruled that the executive order was not law and nullified it.</div></dd></dl> <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">1915, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_A._Birmingham" class="extiw" title="w:George A. Birmingham">G[eorge] A. Birmingham</a> [pseudonym; James Owen Hannay], chapter I, in <cite>Gossamer</cite>, New York, N.Y.: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._Doran_Company" class="extiw" title="w:George H. Doran Company">George H. Doran Company</a>, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/5661828">→OCLC</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, […]. My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. […] I do not suppose that it matters much in reality whether laws are made by dukes or cornerboys, but I like, as far as possible, to associate with gentlemen in private life.</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>(more generally) A <a href="/wiki/rule#English" title="rule">rule</a>, such as: <ol><li>Any <a href="/wiki/rule" title="rule">rule</a> that must or should be <a href="/wiki/obey" title="obey">obeyed</a>, concerning <a href="/wiki/behaviour" title="behaviour">behaviours</a> and their <a href="/wiki/consequence" title="consequence">consequences</a>. (Compare <a href="/wiki/mores#English" title="mores">mores</a>.) <dl><dd><div class="h-usage-example">"Do unto others as you wish them to do unto you" is a good law to follow.</div></dd> <dd><div class="h-usage-example">the law of self-preservation</div></dd></dl></li> <li>A <a href="/wiki/rule" title="rule">rule</a> or <a href="/wiki/principle" title="principle">principle</a> regarding the <a href="/wiki/construction" title="construction">construction</a> of <a href="/wiki/language" title="language">language</a> or <a href="/wiki/art" title="art">art</a>. <dl><dd><div class="h-usage-example">the laws of playwriting and poetry</div></dd></dl> <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">1997, Derek Prince, <cite>If you Want God's Best</cite>, <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1603747540" title="Special:BookSources/1603747540">→ISBN</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">The normal pronoun to use with "spirit" would be "it." But Jesus breaks the law of grammar and says not "when it," but "when he."</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>A <a href="/wiki/statement" title="statement">statement</a> (in <a href="/wiki/physics" title="physics">physics</a>, etc) of an (<a href="/wiki/observe" title="observe">observed</a>, <a href="/wiki/establish" title="establish">established</a>) <a href="/wiki/order" title="order">order</a> or <a href="/wiki/sequence" title="sequence">sequence</a> or <a href="/wiki/relationship" title="relationship">relationship</a> of <a href="/wiki/phenomena" title="phenomena">phenomena</a> which is <a href="/wiki/invariable" title="invariable">invariable</a> under certain <a href="/wiki/condition" title="condition">conditions</a>. (Compare <a href="/wiki/theory#English" title="theory">theory</a>.) <dl><dd>Synonyms: see <a href="/wiki/Thesaurus:law_of_nature#English" title="Thesaurus:law of nature">Thesaurus:law of nature</a></dd></dl> <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">1992 March 2, Richard Preston, “<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1992/03/02/the-mountains-of-pi">The Mountains of Pi</a>”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_Yorker" class="extiw" title="w:The New Yorker">The New Yorker</a></cite>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">Observing <a href="/wiki/pi#English" title="pi">pi</a> is easier than studying physical phenomena, because you can prove things in mathematics, whereas you can't prove anything in physics. And, unfortunately, the laws of physics change once every generation.</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul> <dl><dd><div class="h-usage-example">the laws of thermodynamics</div></dd> <dd><div class="h-usage-example">Newton's third law of motion states that to every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction.</div></dd> <dd><div class="h-usage-example">This is one of several laws derived from his general theory expounded in the Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.</div></dd></dl></li> <li>(<a href="/wiki/mathematics" title="mathematics">mathematics</a>, <a href="/wiki/logic" title="logic">logic</a>) A <a href="/wiki/statement" title="statement">statement</a> (of <a href="/wiki/relation" title="relation">relation</a>) that is <a href="/wiki/true" title="true">true</a> under <a href="/wiki/specified" title="specified">specified</a> <a href="/wiki/condition" title="condition">conditions</a>; a <a href="/wiki/mathematical" title="mathematical">mathematical</a> or <a href="/wiki/logical" title="logical">logical</a> <a href="/wiki/rule" title="rule">rule</a>. <dl><dd><div class="h-usage-example">Mathematical laws can be proved purely through mathematics, without scientific experimentation.</div></dd></dl></li> <li>Any <a href="/wiki/statement" title="statement">statement</a> of the <a href="/wiki/relation" title="relation">relation</a> of <a href="/wiki/act" title="act">acts</a> and <a href="/wiki/condition" title="condition">conditions</a> to their <a href="/wiki/consequence" title="consequence">consequences</a>. <dl><dd><div class="h-usage-example">the law of scarcity</div></dd> <dd><div class="h-usage-example">the law of supply and demand</div></dd></dl></li> <li>(<a href="/wiki/linguistics" title="linguistics">linguistics</a>) A <a href="/wiki/sound_law" title="sound law">sound law</a>; a regular change in the <a href="/wiki/pronunciation" title="pronunciation">pronunciation</a> of a language. <dl><dd><div class="h-usage-example">Grimm's law</div></dd> <dd><div class="h-usage-example">Dahl's law</div></dd></dl></li> <li>(<a href="/wiki/cricket" title="cricket">cricket</a>) One of the <a href="/wiki/official" title="official">official</a> rules of <a href="/wiki/cricket" title="cricket">cricket</a> as <a href="/wiki/codified" title="codified">codified</a> by the its (former) <a href="/wiki/govern" title="govern">governing</a> <a href="/wiki/body" title="body">body</a>, the <a href="/wiki/MCC" title="MCC">MCC</a>.</li></ol></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/control" title="control">control</a> and <a href="/wiki/order" title="order">order</a> <a href="/wiki/bring_about" title="bring about">brought about</a> by the <a href="/wiki/observance" title="observance">observance</a> of such rules. <dl><dd><div class="h-usage-example">They worked to maintain law and order.</div></dd> <dd><div class="h-usage-example">It was a territory without law, marked by violence.</div></dd></dl></li> <li>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#informal" title="Appendix:Glossary">informal</a>) A <a href="/wiki/person" title="person">person</a> or <a href="/wiki/group" title="group">group</a> that act(s) with <a href="/wiki/authority" title="authority">authority</a> to <a href="/wiki/uphold" title="uphold">uphold</a> such rules and order (for example, one or more <a href="/wiki/police" title="police">police</a> <a href="/wiki/officer" title="officer">officers</a>). <dl><dd><div class="h-usage-example">Here comes the law — run!</div></dd> <dd><div class="h-usage-example">then the law arrived on the scene</div></dd></dl> <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">1979, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Zappa" class="extiw" title="w:Frank Zappa">Frank Zappa</a> (lyrics and music), “<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe%27s_Garage" class="extiw" title="w:Joe's Garage">Joe's Garage</a>”:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">That was Joe's first confrontation with "The Law" / Naturally, we were easy on him / One of our friendly counsellors gave him a donut / And told him to stick closer / To church-oriented social activities</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/profession" title="profession">profession</a> that deals with such rules (as <a href="/wiki/lawyer" title="lawyer">lawyers</a>, <a href="/wiki/judge" title="judge">judges</a>, <a href="/wiki/police_officer" title="police officer">police officers</a>, etc). <dl><dd><div class="h-usage-example">He is studying for a career in law.</div></dd> <dd><div class="h-usage-example">She has practiced law in New York for twenty years.</div></dd></dl></li> <li><a href="/wiki/jurisprudence" title="jurisprudence">Jurisprudence</a>, the <a href="/wiki/field" title="field">field</a> of <a href="/wiki/knowledge" title="knowledge">knowledge</a> which <a href="/wiki/encompass" title="encompass">encompasses</a> these rules. <dl><dd><div class="h-usage-example">She went to university to study law.</div></dd></dl></li> <li><a href="/wiki/litigation" title="litigation">Litigation</a>; <a href="/wiki/legal" title="legal">legal</a> <a href="/wiki/action" title="action">action</a> (as a <a href="/wiki/means" title="means">means</a> of <a href="/wiki/maintain" title="maintain">maintaining</a> or <a href="/wiki/restore" title="restore">restoring</a> <a href="/wiki/order" title="order">order</a>, <a href="/wiki/redress" title="redress">redressing</a> <a href="/wiki/wrong" title="wrong">wrongs</a>, etc). <dl><dd><div class="h-usage-example">They were quick to go to law.</div></dd></dl></li> <li>(now <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#uncommon" title="Appendix:Glossary">uncommon</a>) An <a href="/wiki/allowance" title="allowance">allowance</a> of <a href="/wiki/distance" title="distance">distance</a> or <a href="/wiki/time" title="time">time</a> (a <a href="/wiki/head_start" title="head start">head start</a>) <a href="/wiki/give" title="give">given</a> to a <a href="/wiki/weak" title="weak">weaker</a> (<a href="/wiki/human" title="human">human</a> or <a href="/wiki/animal" title="animal">animal</a>) <a href="/wiki/competitor" title="competitor">competitor</a> in a <a href="/wiki/race" title="race">race</a>, to make the race more <a href="/wiki/fair" title="fair">fair</a>. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">1889, Thomas Hughes, <cite>Tom Brown at Rugby</cite>, page 150:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">After a few minutes' waiting, two well-known runners, chosen for the hares, buckled on the four bags filled with scent, compared their watches with those of young Brooke and Thome, and started off at a long, slinging trot across the fields in the direction of Barby. Then the hounds clustered round Thome, who explained shortly, "They're to have six minutes' law."</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>(<a href="/wiki/aviation" title="aviation">aviation</a>) A <a href="/wiki/mode" title="mode">mode</a> of <a href="/wiki/operation" title="operation">operation</a> of the <a href="/wiki/flight_control" title="flight control">flight controls</a> of a <a href="/wiki/fly-by-wire" title="fly-by-wire">fly-by-wire</a> <a href="/wiki/aircraft" title="aircraft">aircraft</a>. <dl><dd><div class="h-usage-example">normal law; alternate law; direct law</div></dd></dl></li> <li>(<a href="/wiki/fantasy" title="fantasy">fantasy</a>) One of two <a href="/wiki/metaphysical" title="metaphysical">metaphysical</a> <a href="/wiki/force" title="force">forces</a> <a href="/wiki/rule" title="rule">ruling</a> the <a href="/wiki/world" title="world">world</a> in some <a href="/wiki/fantasy" title="fantasy">fantasy</a> <a href="/wiki/setting" title="setting">settings</a>, also called <a href="/wiki/order#English" title="order">order</a>, and opposed to <a href="/wiki/chaos" title="chaos">chaos</a>.</li> <li>(<a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#English">law</a>, chiefly <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#historical" title="Appendix:Glossary">historical</a>) An <a href="/wiki/oath" title="oath">oath</a> <a href="/wiki/sworn" title="sworn">sworn</a> before a <a href="/wiki/court" title="court">court</a>, especially <a href="/wiki/disclaim" title="disclaim">disclaiming</a> a <a href="/wiki/debt" title="debt">debt</a>. (Chiefly in the phrases "<a href="/wiki/wager_of_law#English" title="wager of law">wager of law</a>", "<a href="/w/index.php?title=wage_one%27s_law&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="wage one's law (page does not exist)">wage one's law</a>", "<a href="/w/index.php?title=perform_one%27s_law&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="perform one's law (page does not exist)">perform one's law</a>", "<a href="/w/index.php?title=lose_one%27s_law&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="lose one's law (page does not exist)">lose one's law</a>".) <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">1793, Richard Wooddeson, <cite>A Systematical View of the Laws of England</cite>, page 169:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">As to the depriving the defendant of waging his law, it was thought, the practice merited discouragement, as a temptation to perjury.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1846, Matthew Bacon, Sir Henry Gwilliam, Charles Edward Dodd, <cite>A New Abridgment of the Law with Large Additions and Corrections</cite>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">But, before the defendant takes the oath, the plaintiff is called by the crier thrice; and if he do not appear he becomes nonsuited, and then the defendant goes quit without taking his oath; and if he appear, and the defendant swear that he owes the plaintiff nothing, and the compurgators give it upon oath, that they believe he swears true, the plaintiff is barred for ever; for when a person has waged his law, it is as much as if a verdict had passed against the plaintiff; if the plaintiff do not appear to hear the defendant perform his law, so that he is nonsuit, he is not barred, but may bring a new action.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">2013, William Paley Baildon, <cite>Court Rolls of the Manor of Wakefield: Volume 2, 1297 to 1309</cite>, <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1108058620" title="Special:BookSources/1108058620">→ISBN</a>, page ix:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">A withdrawal from a wager of law was an admission of the point as to which the law was waged; the defaulter also incurred a fine (i, 297).</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Derived_terms">Derived terms</h5>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Derived terms">edit</a>]</div> <div class="list-switcher" data-toggle-category="derived terms"><div class="columns-bg term-list ul-column-count" data-column-count="4"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/above_the_law#English" title="above the law">above the law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/administrative_law#English" title="administrative law">administrative law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/admiralty_law#English" title="admiralty law">admiralty law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/against_the_law#English" title="against the law">against the law</a></li><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=alternate_law&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="alternate law (page does not exist)">alternate law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Amagat%27s_law#English" title="Amagat's law">Amagat's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Amara%27s_law#English" title="Amara's law">Amara's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law#English" title="Amdahl's law">Amdahl's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Ammon%27s_law#English" title="Ammon's law">Ammon's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Amp%C3%A8re%27s_circuital_law#English" title="Ampère's circuital law">Ampère's circuital law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Amp%C3%A8re%27s_force_law#English" title="Ampère's force law">Ampère's force law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Amp%C3%A8re%27s_law#English" title="Ampère's law">Ampère's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Arndt-Schulz_law#English" title="Arndt-Schulz law">Arndt-Schulz law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/as_a_matter_of_law#English" title="as a matter of law">as a matter of law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/astrolaw#English" title="astrolaw">astrolaw</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/attorney-at-law#English" title="attorney-at-law">attorney-at-law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/attorney_at_law#English" title="attorney at law">attorney at law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Atwood%27s_Law#English" title="Atwood's Law">Atwood's Law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Avogadro%27s_law#English" title="Avogadro's law">Avogadro's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Baby_Moses_law#English" title="Baby Moses law">Baby Moses law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/bad_facts_make_bad_law#English" title="bad facts make bad law">bad facts make bad law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/basic_law#English" title="basic law">basic law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Baxter%27s_law#English" title="Baxter's law">Baxter's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Beer-Lambert-Bouguer_law#English" title="Beer-Lambert-Bouguer law">Beer-Lambert-Bouguer law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Beer-Lambert_law#English" title="Beer-Lambert law">Beer-Lambert law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Beer%27s_law#English" title="Beer's law">Beer's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Benford%27s_law#English" title="Benford's law">Benford's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Bennett%27s_law#English" title="Bennett's law">Bennett's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law#English" title="Betteridge's law">Betteridge's law</a>, <a href="/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines#English" title="Betteridge's law of headlines">Betteridge's law of headlines</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Betz%27s_law#English" title="Betz's law">Betz's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/BigLaw#English" title="BigLaw">BigLaw</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/black_letter_law#English" title="black letter law">black letter law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/black-letter_law#English" title="black-letter law">black-letter law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/blawg#English" title="blawg">blawg</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/blue_law#English" title="blue law">blue law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/blue_sky_law#English" title="blue sky law">blue sky law</a></li><li><a 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href="/wiki/business_law#English" title="business law">business law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Buys_Ballot%27s_law#English" title="Buys Ballot's law">Buys Ballot's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/bye-law#English" title="bye-law">bye-law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/bylaw#English" title="bylaw">bylaw</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/by-law#English" title="by-law">by-law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/canon_law#English" title="canon law">canon law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/case_law#English" title="case law">case law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Cassie%27s_law#English" title="Cassie's law">Cassie's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Charles%27_law#English" title="Charles' law">Charles' law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Charles%27s_law#English" title="Charles's law">Charles's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/chemical_law#English" title="chemical law">chemical law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Christian_sharia_law#English" title="Christian sharia law">Christian sharia law</a></li><li><a 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href="/wiki/Emmert%27s_law#English" title="Emmert's law">Emmert's law</a></li><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=employment_law&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="employment law (page does not exist)">employment law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Engel%27s_law#English" title="Engel's law">Engel's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/English_and_Welsh_law#English" title="English and Welsh law">English and Welsh law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/English_law#English" title="English law">English law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Enoch_Arden_law#English" title="Enoch Arden law">Enoch Arden law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Eroom%27s_law#English" title="Eroom's law">Eroom's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Eurolaw#English" title="Eurolaw">Eurolaw</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/every_law_has_a_loophole#English" title="every law has a loophole">every law has a loophole</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/every_law_has_its_loophole#English" title="every law has its loophole">every law has its loophole</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/extreme_risk_law#English" title="extreme risk law">extreme risk law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/family_law#English" title="family law">family law</a></li><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Faraday%27s_law&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Faraday's law (page does not exist)">Faraday's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Fechner%27s_law#English" title="Fechner's law">Fechner's law</a></li><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=federal_law&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="federal law (page does not exist)">federal law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/feudal_law#English" title="feudal law">feudal law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Finagle%27s_law#English" title="Finagle's law">Finagle's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/financial_law#English" title="financial law">financial law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/fiscal_law#English" title="fiscal law">fiscal law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Fitts%27_law#English" title="Fitts' law">Fitts' law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Fitts%27s_law#English" title="Fitts's law">Fitts's law</a></li><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Fourier%27s_law&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Fourier's law (page does not exist)">Fourier's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/framework_law#English" title="framework law">framework law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/gas_law#English" title="gas law">gas law</a></li><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Gauss%27s_law&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Gauss's law (page does not exist)">Gauss's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Gay-Lussac%27s_law#English" title="Gay-Lussac's law">Gay-Lussac's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Geiger-Nuttall_law#English" title="Geiger-Nuttall law">Geiger-Nuttall law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Godwin%27s_law#English" title="Godwin's law">Godwin's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law#English" title="Goodhart's law">Goodhart's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/good_law#English" title="good law">good law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Good_Samaritan_law#English" title="Good Samaritan law">Good Samaritan law</a></li><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Graham%27s_law&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Graham's law (page does not exist)">Graham's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/granger_law#English" title="granger law">granger law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Granger_law#English" title="Granger law">Granger law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Grassmann%27s_law#English" title="Grassmann's law">Grassmann's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Gresham%27s_law#English" title="Gresham's law">Gresham's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Grimm%27s_law#English" title="Grimm's law">Grimm's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Grosch%27s_law#English" title="Grosch's law">Grosch's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Grotthuss-Draper_law#English" title="Grotthuss-Draper law">Grotthuss-Draper law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Gustafson%27s_law#English" title="Gustafson's law">Gustafson's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Haldane%27s_law#English" title="Haldane's law">Haldane's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/hard_cases_make_bad_law#English" title="hard cases make bad law">hard cases make bad law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Hardy-Weinberg_law#English" title="Hardy-Weinberg law">Hardy-Weinberg law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/have_the_law_of_someone#English" title="have the law of someone">have the law of someone</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Healey%27s_first_law_of_holes#English" title="Healey's first law of holes">Healey's first law of holes</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Healey%27s_law#English" title="Healey's law">Healey's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Heaps%27_law#English" title="Heaps' law">Heaps' law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/heir_at_law#English" title="heir at law">heir at law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/heir-at-law#English" title="heir-at-law">heir-at-law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Hellin%27s_law#English" title="Hellin's law">Hellin's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Henry%27s_law#English" title="Henry's law">Henry's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Henry%27s_law_constant#English" title="Henry's law constant">Henry's law constant</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Hess%27s_law#English" title="Hess's law">Hess's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Hilt%27s_law#English" title="Hilt's law">Hilt's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Hirt%27s_law#English" title="Hirt's law">Hirt's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Hofstadter%27s_law#English" title="Hofstadter's law">Hofstadter's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Hooke%27s_law#English" title="Hooke's law">Hooke's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Hubble_law#English" title="Hubble law">Hubble law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Hubble%27s_law#English" title="Hubble's law">Hubble's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Hume%27s_law#English" title="Hume's law">Hume's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Hyrum%27s_law#English" title="Hyrum's law">Hyrum's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/ideal_gas_law#English" title="ideal gas law">ideal gas law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/inheritance_law#English" title="inheritance law">inheritance law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/in-law#English" title="in-law">in-law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/inlaw#English" title="inlaw">inlaw</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/international_humanitarian_law#English" title="international humanitarian law">international humanitarian law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/international_law#English" title="international law">international law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/in_the_eyes_of_the_law#English" title="in the eyes of the law">in the eyes of the law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/in_the_name_of_the_law#English" title="in the name of the law">in the name of the law</a></li><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=into_law&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="into law (page does not exist)">into law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/inverse-square_law#English" title="inverse-square law">inverse-square law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/IT_law#English" title="IT law">IT law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Crow_law#English" title="Jim Crow law">Jim Crow law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Jordan%27s_law#English" title="Jordan's law">Jordan's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Joule%27s_law#English" title="Joule's law">Joule's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/judge-made_law#English" title="judge-made law">judge-made law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Jurin%27s_law#English" title="Jurin's law">Jurin's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Kepler%27s_law#English" title="Kepler's law">Kepler's law</a></li><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kepler%27s_laws_of_planetary_motion&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kepler's laws of planetary motion (page does not exist)">Kepler's laws of planetary motion</a></li><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Kerchoff%27s_laws&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Kerchoff's laws (page does not exist)">Kerchoff's laws</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Kirchhoff%27s_current_law#English" title="Kirchhoff's current law">Kirchhoff's current law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Kirchhoff%27s_voltage_law#English" title="Kirchhoff's voltage law">Kirchhoff's voltage law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Kohlrausch%27s_law#English" title="Kohlrausch's law">Kohlrausch's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/labor_law#English" title="labor law">labor law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/labour_law#English" title="labour law">labour law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Lambert-Beer_law#English" title="Lambert-Beer law">Lambert-Beer law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Lambert%27s_cosine_law#English" title="Lambert's cosine law">Lambert's cosine law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Lambert%27s_emission_law#English" title="Lambert's emission law">Lambert's emission law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Lambert%27s_law#English" title="Lambert's law">Lambert's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Lanchester%27s_law#English" title="Lanchester's law">Lanchester's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law-abiding#English" title="law-abiding">law-abiding</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_agent#English" title="law agent">law agent</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_and_order#English" title="law and order">law and order</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_binding#English" title="law binding">law binding</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/lawbook#English" title="lawbook">lawbook</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/lawbot#English" title="lawbot">lawbot</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/lawbreaker#English" title="lawbreaker">lawbreaker</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law-breaker#English" title="law-breaker">law-breaker</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/lawbreaking#English" title="lawbreaking">lawbreaking</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_calf#English" title="law calf">law calf</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_clerk#English" title="law clerk">law clerk</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/lawclerk#English" title="lawclerk">lawclerk</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/lawcode#English" title="lawcode">lawcode</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_court#English" title="law court">law court</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/lawcraft#English" title="lawcraft">lawcraft</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_day#English" title="law day">law day</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_dictionary#English" title="law dictionary">law dictionary</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_enforcement#English" title="law enforcement">law enforcement</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law-enforcement#English" title="law-enforcement">law-enforcement</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/lawfare#English" title="lawfare">lawfare</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_firm#English" title="law firm">law firm</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/lawful#English" title="lawful">lawful</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/lawgiver#English" title="lawgiver">lawgiver</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/lawgiving#English" title="lawgiving">lawgiving</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_Latin#English" title="law Latin">law Latin</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_leather#English" title="law leather">law leather</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/lawless#English" title="lawless">lawless</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/lawlike#English" title="lawlike">lawlike</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_list#English" title="law list">law list</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_lord#English" title="law lord">law lord</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Law_Lord&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Law Lord (page does not exist)">Law Lord</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/lawly#English" title="lawly">lawly</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/lawmaker#English" title="lawmaker">lawmaker</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=law-maker&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="law-maker (page does not exist)">law-maker</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/lawmaking#English" title="lawmaking">lawmaking</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_merchant#English" title="law merchant">law merchant</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/lawmonger#English" title="lawmonger">lawmonger</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_of_attraction#English" title="law of attraction">law of attraction</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_of_averages#English" title="law of averages">law of averages</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_of_conservation_of_mass#English" title="law of conservation of mass">law of conservation of mass</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_of_contradiction#English" title="law of contradiction">law of contradiction</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_of_correspondence#English" title="law of correspondence">law of correspondence</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_of_cosines#English" title="law of cosines">law of cosines</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_of_diminishing_marginal_utility#English" title="law of diminishing marginal utility">law of diminishing marginal utility</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_of_diminishing_returns#English" title="law of diminishing returns">law of diminishing returns</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_of_double_negation#English" title="law of double negation">law of double negation</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_of_excluded_middle#English" title="law of excluded middle">law of excluded middle</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_of_Hobson-Jobson#English" title="law of Hobson-Jobson">law of Hobson-Jobson</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_of_holes#English" title="law of holes">law of holes</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_of_identity#English" title="law of identity">law of identity</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_of_large_numbers#English" title="law of large numbers">law of large numbers</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_of_love#English" title="law of love">law of love</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_of_majestas#English" title="law of majestas">law of majestas</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_of_markets#English" title="law of markets">law of markets</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_of_nations#English" title="law of nations">law of nations</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_of_nature#English" title="law of nature">law of nature</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_of_non-contradiction#English" title="law of non-contradiction">law of non-contradiction</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_of_noncontradiction#English" title="law of noncontradiction">law of noncontradiction</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_of_nontriviality#English" title="law of nontriviality">law of nontriviality</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_of_obligations#English" title="law of obligations">law of obligations</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_of_one#English" title="law of one">law of one</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_of_one_price#English" title="law of one price">law of one price</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_of_parsimony#English" title="law of parsimony">law of parsimony</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_of_sines#English" title="law of sines">law of sines</a></li><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=law_of_small_numbers&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="law of small numbers (page does not exist)">law of small numbers</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_of_tangents#English" title="law of tangents">law of tangents</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_of_the_excluded_middle#English" title="law of the excluded middle">law of the excluded middle</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_of_the_jungle#English" title="law of the jungle">law of the jungle</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_of_the_land#English" title="law of the land">law of the land</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_of_the_Medes_and_the_Persians#English" title="law of the Medes and the Persians">law of the Medes and the Persians</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_of_the_sea#English" title="law of the sea">law of the sea</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_of_the_tongue#English" title="law of the tongue">law of the tongue</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_of_unintended_consequences#English" title="law of unintended consequences">law of unintended consequences</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_of_war#English" title="law of war">law of war</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_review#English" title="law review">law review</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/lawscape#English" title="lawscape">lawscape</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_school#English" title="law school">law school</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_shopping#English" title="law shopping">law shopping</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/lawsome#English" title="lawsome">lawsome</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/lawspeaker#English" title="lawspeaker">lawspeaker</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/lawsuit#English" title="lawsuit">lawsuit</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_suit#English" title="law suit">law suit</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law-trained#English" title="law-trained">law-trained</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law_unto_oneself#English" title="law unto oneself">law unto oneself</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law-way#English" title="law-way">law-way</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/law-ways#English" title="law-ways">law-ways</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/lay_down_the_law#English" title="lay down the law">lay down the law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Leavitt_law#English" title="Leavitt law">Leavitt law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Leibniz%27s_law#English" title="Leibniz's law">Leibniz's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Lema%C3%AEtre%27s_law#English" title="Lemaître's law">Lemaître's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/lemon_law#English" title="lemon law">lemon law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Lenz%27s_law#English" title="Lenz's law">Lenz's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/letter_of_the_law#English" title="letter of the law">letter of the law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Lewis%27s_law#English" title="Lewis's law">Lewis's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/limb_of_the_law#English" title="limb of the law">limb of the law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Little%27s_law#English" title="Little's law">Little's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Littlewood%27s_law#English" title="Littlewood's law">Littlewood's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/long_arm_of_the_law#English" title="long arm of the law">long arm of the law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Lotka%27s_law#English" title="Lotka's law">Lotka's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Lubarsky%27s_law_of_cybernetic_entomology#English" title="Lubarsky's law of cybernetic entomology">Lubarsky's law of cybernetic entomology</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Lyman%27s_law#English" title="Lyman's law">Lyman's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/lynch_law#English" title="lynch law">lynch law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Maas%27s_law#English" title="Maas's law">Maas's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Maine_law#English" title="Maine law">Maine law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/malice_in_law#English" title="malice in law">malice in law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/man_of_law#English" title="man of law">man of law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Marconi%27s_law#English" title="Marconi's law">Marconi's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Mariotte%27s_law#English" title="Mariotte's law">Mariotte's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/maritime_law#English" title="maritime law">maritime law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/martial_law#English" title="martial law">martial law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/matter_of_law#English" title="matter of law">matter of law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Meckel-Serres_law#English" title="Meckel-Serres law">Meckel-Serres law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Meillet%27s_law#English" title="Meillet's law">Meillet's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Menzerath%27s_law#English" title="Menzerath's law">Menzerath's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/metalaw#English" title="metalaw">metalaw</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Metcalfe%27s_law#English" title="Metcalfe's law">Metcalfe's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Miles%27_law#English" title="Miles' law">Miles' law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Mitscherlich%27s_law#English" title="Mitscherlich's law">Mitscherlich's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/mob_law#English" title="mob law">mob law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Mooers%27s_law#English" title="Mooers's law">Mooers's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Moore%27s_law#English" title="Moore's law">Moore's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Muphry%27s_law#English" title="Muphry's law">Muphry's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Murphy%27s_law#English" title="Murphy's law">Murphy's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/natural_law#English" title="natural law">natural law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/necessity_knows_no_law#English" title="necessity knows no law">necessity knows no law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/neurolaw#English" title="neurolaw">neurolaw</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Newton%27s_first_law#English" title="Newton's first law">Newton's first law</a></li><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Newton%27s_law_of_cooling&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Newton's law of cooling (page does not exist)">Newton's law of cooling</a></li><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Newton%27s_law_of_gravitation&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Newton's law of gravitation (page does not exist)">Newton's law of gravitation</a></li><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Newton%27s_laws_of_motion&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Newton's laws of motion (page does not exist)">Newton's laws of motion</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Newton%27s_second_law#English" title="Newton's second law">Newton's second law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Newton%27s_third_law#English" title="Newton's third law">Newton's third law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/nonlaw#English" title="nonlaw">nonlaw</a></li><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=normal_law&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="normal law (page does not exist)">normal law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Ohm%27s_law#English" title="Ohm's law">Ohm's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Okun%27s_law#English" title="Okun's law">Okun's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/one%27s_word_is_law#English" title="one's word is law">one's word is law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/operation_of_law#English" title="operation of law">operation of law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/organic_law#English" title="organic law">organic law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/O%27Sullivan%27s_law#English" title="O'Sullivan's law">O'Sullivan's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/outlaw#English" title="outlaw">outlaw</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/paenultima_law#English" title="paenultima law">paenultima law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Panini%27s_law#English" title="Panini's law">Panini's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Pareto%27s_law#English" title="Pareto's law">Pareto's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Parkinson%27s_law#English" title="Parkinson's law">Parkinson's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Pascal%27s_law#English" title="Pascal's law">Pascal's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Paschen%27s_law#English" title="Paschen's law">Paschen's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Peirce%27s_law#English" title="Peirce's law">Peirce's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/penal_law#English" title="penal law">penal law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/penultima_law#English" title="penultima law">penultima law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/periodic_law#English" title="periodic law">periodic law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/personal_law#English" title="personal law">personal law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/physical_law#English" title="physical law">physical law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Plateau%27s_law#English" title="Plateau's law">Plateau's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Poe%27s_law#English" title="Poe's law">Poe's law</a></li><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Poiseuille%27s_law&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Poiseuille's law (page does not exist)">Poiseuille's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/poor_law#English" title="poor law">poor law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/positive_law#English" title="positive law">positive law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/possession_is_nine_points_of_the_law#English" title="possession is nine points of the law">possession is nine points of the law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/possession_is_nine-tenths_of_the_law#English" title="possession is nine-tenths of the law">possession is nine-tenths of the law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Postel%27s_law#English" title="Postel's law">Postel's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Pournelle%27s_law#English" title="Pournelle's law">Pournelle's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/powerlaw#English" title="powerlaw">powerlaw</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/power_law#English" title="power law">power law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/precedential_law#English" title="precedential law">precedential law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/prelaw#English" title="prelaw">prelaw</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Price%27s_law#English" title="Price's law">Price's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/private_international_law#English" title="private international law">private international law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/private_law#English" title="private law">private law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/procedural_law#English" title="procedural law">procedural law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/property_law#English" title="property law">property law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/pseudolaw#English" title="pseudolaw">pseudolaw</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/public_international_law#English" title="public international law">public international law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/public_law#English" title="public law">public law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/question_of_law#English" title="question of law">question of law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Raoult%27s_law#English" title="Raoult's law">Raoult's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Rayleigh-Jeans_law#English" title="Rayleigh-Jeans law">Rayleigh-Jeans law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/red_flag_law#English" title="red flag law">red flag law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/red_letter_law#English" title="red letter law">red letter law</a></li><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=retroactive_law&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="retroactive law (page does not exist)">retroactive law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Ribot%27s_law#English" title="Ribot's law">Ribot's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Riepl%27s_law#English" title="Riepl's law">Riepl's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Roman-Dutch_law#English" title="Roman-Dutch law">Roman-Dutch law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Roman_law#English" title="Roman law">Roman law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Romeo_and_Juliet_law#English" title="Romeo and Juliet law">Romeo and Juliet law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/rule_of_law#English" title="rule of law">rule of law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Salic_law#English" title="Salic law">Salic law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Say%27s_law#English" title="Say's law">Say's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Schneier%27s_law#English" title="Schneier's law">Schneier's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/scofflaw#English" title="scofflaw">scofflaw</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Scots_law#English" title="Scots law">Scots law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Scottish_law#English" title="Scottish law">Scottish law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/sergeant-at-law#English" title="sergeant-at-law">sergeant-at-law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/serjeant-at-law#English" title="serjeant-at-law">serjeant-at-law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/sharia_law#English" title="sharia law">sharia law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/shield_law#English" title="shield law">shield law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Shine_the_Light_Law#English" title="Shine the Light Law">Shine the Light Law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Sievers%27_law#English" title="Sievers' law">Sievers' law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Sievers%27s_law#English" title="Sievers's law">Sievers's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Sieverts%27_law#English" title="Sieverts' law">Sieverts' law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/sign_into_law#English" title="sign into law">sign into law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/sine_law#English" title="sine law">sine law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Snell%27s_law#English" title="Snell's law">Snell's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Sod%27s_law#English" title="Sod's law">Sod's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Son_of_Sam_law#English" title="Son of Sam law">Son of Sam law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/sound_law#English" title="sound law">sound law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/space_law#English" title="space law">space law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/spirit_of_the_law#English" title="spirit of the law">spirit of the law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/square-cube_law#English" title="square-cube law">square-cube law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/stand-your-ground_law#English" title="stand-your-ground law">stand-your-ground law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Stang%27s_law#English" title="Stang's law">Stang's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Stark-Einstein_law#English" title="Stark-Einstein law">Stark-Einstein law</a></li><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=state_law&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="state law (page does not exist)">state law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/statute_law#English" title="statute law">statute law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/statutory_law#English" title="statutory law">statutory law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Stefan-Boltzmann_law#English" title="Stefan-Boltzmann law">Stefan-Boltzmann law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/stepmother-in-law#English" title="stepmother-in-law">stepmother-in-law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Stigler%27s_law#English" title="Stigler's law">Stigler's law</a></li><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Stokes%27_law&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Stokes' law (page does not exist)">Stokes' law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Sturgeon%27s_law#English" title="Sturgeon's law">Sturgeon's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/sublaw#English" title="sublaw">sublaw</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/substantive_law#English" title="substantive law">substantive law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/sumptuary_law#English" title="sumptuary law">sumptuary law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/sunset_law#English" title="sunset law">sunset law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/sunshine_law#English" title="sunshine law">sunshine law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/sus_law#English" title="sus law">sus law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/suss_law#English" title="suss law">suss law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Szemer%C3%A9nyi%27s_law#English" title="Szemerényi's law">Szemerényi's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/take_law_into_one%27s_own_hands#English" title="take law into one's own hands">take law into one's own hands</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/take_the_law_into_one%27s_own_hands#English" title="take the law into one's own hands">take the law into one's own hands</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Talbot-Plateau_law#English" title="Talbot-Plateau law">Talbot-Plateau law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Talbot%27s_law#English" title="Talbot's law">Talbot's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/tax_law#English" title="tax law">tax law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/the_law_is_a_ass#English" title="the law is a ass">the law is a ass</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/the_law_is_an_ass#English" title="the law is an ass">the law is an ass</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/there_oughta_be_a_law#English" title="there oughta be a law">there oughta be a law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/there_oughtta_be_a_law#English" title="there oughtta be a law">there oughtta be a law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/there_ought_to_be_a_law#English" title="there ought to be a law">there ought to be a law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/thief_in_law#English" title="thief in law">thief in law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/threefold_law#English" title="threefold law">threefold law</a></li><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=three_laws_of_robotics&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="three laws of robotics (page does not exist)">three laws of robotics</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/three-strikes_law#English" title="three-strikes law">three-strikes law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Titius-Bode_law#English" title="Titius-Bode law">Titius-Bode law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Torricelli%27s_law#English" title="Torricelli's law">Torricelli's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/tort_law#English" title="tort law">tort law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/trade_law#English" title="trade law">trade law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Tranzschel%27s_law#English" title="Tranzschel's law">Tranzschel's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/TRAP_law#English" title="TRAP law">TRAP law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/trigger_law#English" title="trigger law">trigger law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/trite_law#English" title="trite law">trite law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/trust_law#English" title="trust law">trust law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/ugly_law#English" title="ugly law">ugly law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/unlaw#English" title="unlaw">unlaw</a></li><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=unwritten_law&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="unwritten law (page does not exist)">unwritten law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/van_der_Waals_law#English" title="van der Waals law">van der Waals law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Van_der_Waals_law#English" title="Van der Waals law">Van der Waals law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/van_%27t_Hoff%27s_law#English" title="van 't Hoff's law">van 't Hoff's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Verner%27s_law#English" title="Verner's law">Verner's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Vierordt%27s_law#English" title="Vierordt's law">Vierordt's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Virchow%27s_law#English" title="Virchow's law">Virchow's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/water_law#English" title="water law">water law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Weber-Fechner_law#English" title="Weber-Fechner law">Weber-Fechner law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Welsh_law#English" title="Welsh law">Welsh law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Westlaw#English" title="Westlaw">Westlaw</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Wien%27s_displacement_law#English" title="Wien's displacement law">Wien's displacement law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/windward_of_the_law#English" title="windward of the law">windward of the law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Winter%27s_law#English" title="Winter's law">Winter's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Wolff%27s_law#English" title="Wolff's law">Wolff's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Worthington%27s_law#English" title="Worthington's law">Worthington's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Yog%27s_Law#English" title="Yog's Law">Yog's Law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Zawinski%27s_law#English" title="Zawinski's law">Zawinski's law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/zero-one_law#English" title="zero-one law">zero-one law</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Zipf%27s_law#English" title="Zipf's law">Zipf's law</a></li></ul></div><div class="list-switcher-element" data-showtext=" show more ▼ " data-hidetext=" show less ▲ " style="display:none"> </div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Translations">Translations</h5>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Translations">edit</a>]</div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-body_of_rules_established_in_a_community_by_its_authorities"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">body of rules established in a community by its authorities</div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="body of rules established in a community by its authorities"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r81584270">.mw-parser-output .translations{width:100%}.mw-parser-output .translations-cell{background-color:var(--wikt-palette-lightyellow,#FFFFe0);vertical-align:top;text-align:left}</style>{{multitrans|data= <ul><li>Abkhaz: <a href="/wiki/%D0%B0%D0%B7%D0%B0%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%B0%D0%BD#Abkhaz" title="азакуан">азакуан</a> (azakʼwan)</li> <li>Afrikaans: {{t+|1=af|2=wet}}</li> <li>Albanian: {{t|1=sq|2=ligj|3=m}}</li> <li>Ambonese Malay: {{t|1=abs|2=wet}}</li> <li>Amharic: <a href="/wiki/%E1%88%95%E1%8C%8D#Amharic" title="ሕግ">ሕግ</a> (ḥəg)</li> <li>Arabic: {{t+|1=ar|2=قَانُون|3=m}}, {{t+|1=ar|2=شَرِيعَة|3=f|tr=šarīʕa}} (religious, islamic)</li> <li>Armenian: {{t+|1=hy|2=օրենք}}</li> <li>Aromanian: <a href="/wiki/nom#Aromanian" title="nom">nom</a> <abbr title="neuter gender">n</abbr></li> <li>Asturian: {{t+|1=ast|2=llei|3=f}}</li> <li>Atong (India): {{t|1=aot|2=niam}}</li> <li>Azerbaijani: {{t|1=az|2=hüquq}}</li> <li>Basque: {{t|1=eu|2=lege}}</li> <li>Bengali: {{t+|1=bn|2=আইন}}</li> <li>Bulgarian: {{t+|1=bg|2=зако́н|3=m}}</li> <li>Burmese: <a href="/wiki/%E1%80%A5%E1%80%95%E1%80%92%E1%80%B1#Burmese" title="ဥပဒေ">ဥပဒေ</a> <a href="https://my.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E1%80%A5%E1%80%95%E1%80%92%E1%80%B1" class="extiw" title="my:ဥပဒေ">(my)</a> (u.pa.de), <a href="/wiki/%E1%80%90%E1%80%9B%E1%80%AC%E1%80%B8#Burmese" title="တရား">တရား</a> <a href="https://my.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E1%80%90%E1%80%9B%E1%80%AC%E1%80%B8" class="extiw" title="my:တရား">(my)</a> (ta.ra:)</li> <li>Buryat: <a href="/w/index.php?title=%D1%85%D1%83%D1%83%D0%BB%D0%B8&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="хуули (page does not exist)">хуули</a> (xuuli)</li> <li>Catalan: {{t+|1=ca|2=llei}}, {{t+|1=ca|2=dret}}</li> <li>Cebuano: {{t|1=ceb|2=balaod}}</li> <li>Chechen: {{t|1=ce|2=ӏедал}}, {{t|1=ce|2=бакъо}}</li> <li>Cherokee: {{t|1=chr|2=ᏗᎧᏃᏩᏛᏍᏗ}}</li> <li>Chinese: <dl><dd>Cantonese: {{t|1=yue|2=法律}}</dd> <dd>Hokkien: {{t+|1=nan-hbl|2=法律|tr=hoat-lu̍t}}</dd> <dd>Mandarin: {{t+|1=cmn|2=法律}}</dd></dl></li> <li>Czech: {{t+|1=cs|2=právo|3=n}}, {{t+|1=cs|2=zákon|3=m}}</li> <li>Danish: {{t+|1=da|2=lov|3=c}}, {{t+|1=da|2=ret|3=c}}</li> <li>Dutch: {{t+|1=nl|2=wet|3=m}}, {{t+|1=nl|2=recht|3=n}}</li> <li>Erzya: {{t|1=myv|2=витьчи}}, {{t|1=myv|2=права}}</li> <li>Esperanto: {{t|1=eo|2=leĝaro}}</li> <li>Estonian: {{t+|1=et|2=õigus}}</li> <li>Ewe: {{t|1=ee|2=se}}</li> <li>Extremaduran: <a href="/wiki/lei#Extremaduran" title="lei">lei</a>, <a href="/wiki/derechu#Extremaduran" title="derechu">derechu</a></li> <li>Finnish: {{t+|1=fi|2=laki}}, {{t+|1=fi|2=lainsäädäntö}}</li> <li>French: {{t+|1=fr|2=loi|3=f}}, {{t+|1=fr|2=droit|3=m}}</li> <li>Galician: {{t+|1=gl|2=lei|3=f}}</li> <li>Georgian: <a href="/wiki/%E1%83%A1%E1%83%90%E1%83%9B%E1%83%90%E1%83%A0%E1%83%97%E1%83%90%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98#Georgian" title="სამართალი">სამართალი</a> (samartali)</li> <li>German: {{t+|1=de|2=Gesetz|3=n}}, {{t+|1=de|2=Recht|3=n}}</li> <li>Gothic: {{t|1=got|2=𐍅𐌹𐍄𐍉𐌸|3=n}}</li> <li>Greek: {{t+|1=el|2=νόμος|3=m}}, {{t+|1=el|2=δίκαιο|3=n}} <dl><dd>Ancient: {{t|1=grc|2=νόμος|3=m}}</dd></dl></li> <li>Haitian Creole: {{t|1=ht|2=lwa}}</li> <li>Hebrew: {{t+|1=he|2=חוק|3=m|tr=khók|alt=חוק \ חֹק}}, {{t+|1=he|2=מִשְׁפָּט|3=m|tr=mishpát}}</li> <li>Hindi: {{t|1=hi|2=क़ानून|3=m}}, <a href="/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A7%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8#Hindi" title="विधान">विधान</a> <a href="https://hi.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A7%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8" class="extiw" title="hi:विधान">(hi)</a> (vidhān), <a href="/wiki/%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%AE#Hindi" title="नियम">नियम</a> <a href="https://hi.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%AE" class="extiw" title="hi:नियम">(hi)</a> (niyam)</li> <li>Hungarian: {{t+|1=hu|2=jog}}</li> <li>Icelandic: {{t+|1=is|2=lög|3=n-p}}</li> <li>Indonesian: {{t+|1=id|2=hukum}}</li> <li>Ingrian: <a href="/wiki/oikehus#Ingrian" title="oikehus">oikehus</a></li> <li>Interlingua: {{t+|1=ia|2=lege}}</li> <li>Irish: {{t+|1=ga|2=dlí|3=m}}</li> <li>Italian: {{t+|1=it|2=legge|3=f}}</li> <li>Japanese: {{t+|1=ja|2=法律|tr=ほうりつ, hōritsu}}</li> <li>Kannada: {{t+|1=kn|2=ಕಾನೂನು}}</li> <li>Kazakh: {{t|1=kk|2=заң}}, <a href="/wiki/%D2%9B%D2%B1%D2%9B%D1%8B%D2%9B#Kazakh" title="құқық">құқық</a> <a href="https://kk.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D2%9B%D2%B1%D2%9B%D1%8B%D2%9B" class="extiw" title="kk:құқық">(kk)</a> (qūqyq)</li> <li>Khmer: {{t+|1=km|2=ច្បាប់}}</li> <li>Korean: {{t+|1=ko|2=법률(法律)}}</li> <li>Kurdish: <dl><dd>Central Kurdish: {{t|1=ckb|2=یاسا}}</dd> <dd>Northern Kurdish: {{t+|1=kmr|2=qanûn|3=f}}, {{t+|1=kmr|2=zagon|3=f}}, {{t+|1=kmr|2=yasa|3=f}}</dd></dl></li> <li>Kyrgyz: {{t+|1=ky|2=кай}}</li> <li>Lao: <a href="/wiki/%E0%BA%81%E0%BA%BB%E0%BA%94%E0%BB%9D%E0%BA%B2%E0%BA%8D#Lao" title="ກົດໝາຍ">ກົດໝາຍ</a> <a href="https://lo.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%BA%81%E0%BA%BB%E0%BA%94%E0%BB%9D%E0%BA%B2%E0%BA%8D" class="extiw" title="lo:ກົດໝາຍ">(lo)</a> (kot māi)</li> <li>Latin: {{t+|1=la|2=lex|3=f}} (genitive {{t+|1=la|2=lēgis|3=f}}), {{t+|1=la|2=iūs|3=n}} (genitive {{t+|1=la|2=iūris|3=n}}), {{t+|1=la|2=iura|3=n-p}}</li> <li>Latvian: {{t|1=lv|2=tiesības|3=m}}</li> <li>Lithuanian: {{t+|1=lt|2=teisė|3=f}}</li> <li>Lombard: {{t+|1=lmo|2=leg|3=f}}</li> <li>Luxembourgish: {{t|1=lb|2=Droit|3=m}}</li> <li>Lü: <a href="/w/index.php?title=%E1%A6%80%E1%A6%B1%E1%A7%86%E1%A6%8D%E1%A6%B1&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="ᦀᦱᧆᦍᦱ (page does not exist)">ᦀᦱᧆᦍᦱ</a> (˙ʼaadyaa)</li> <li>Malagasy: <a href="/wiki/lalana#Malagasy" title="lalana">lalana</a> <a href="https://mg.wiktionary.org/wiki/lalana" class="extiw" title="mg:lalana">(mg)</a></li> <li>Malay: {{t+|1=ms|2=undang-undang}}</li> <li>Malayalam: {{t+|1=ml|2=നിയമം}}</li> <li>Maltese: {{t|1=mt|2=liġi|3=f}}</li> <li>Manchu: {{t|1=mnc|2=ᡶᠠᡶᡠᠨ}}</li> <li>Middle English: {{t|1=enm|2=lawe}}</li> <li>Mongolian: <dl><dd>Cyrillic: {{t+|1=mn|2=хууль}}</dd> <dd>Mongolian: {{t|1=mn|2=ᠬᠠᠤᠯᠢ}}</dd></dl></li> <li>Nepali: {{t|1=ne|2=कानून|3=c|tr=kānūn}} (literally), {{t+|1=ne|2=विधान|tr=vidhān}}, {{t|1=ne|2=नियम|tr=niyam}}</li> <li>Norwegian: <dl><dd>Bokmål: {{t+|1=nb|2=lov|3=m}}, {{t+|1=nb|2=lag|3=m}} (obsolete)</dd></dl></li> <li>Occitan: {{t+|1=oc|2=lei|3=f}}, {{t+|1=oc|2=drech|3=m}}</li> <li>Old English: {{t|1=ang|2=dōm}}, {{t|1=ang|2=ǣ|3=f}}</li> <li>Oromo: {{t|1=om|2=seera}}</li> <li>Palauan: {{t|1=pau|2=llach}}</li> <li>Persian: <a href="/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AF#Persian" title="داد">داد</a> <a href="https://fa.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%AF" class="extiw" title="fa:داد">(fa)</a> (dād) <dl><dd>Dari: {{t+|1=prs|2=قَانُون}}</dd> <dd>Iranian Persian: {{t+|1=fa-ira|2=قانون}}</dd></dl></li> <li>Polish: {{t+|1=pl|2=prawo|3=n}}</li> <li>Portuguese: {{t+|1=pt|2=lei|3=f}}, (please <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:Translations#Translations_to_be_checked" title="Wiktionary:Translations">verify</a>) <a href="/wiki/direito#Portuguese" title="direito">direito</a> <a href="https://pt.wiktionary.org/wiki/direito" class="extiw" title="pt:direito">(pt)</a> <abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr></li> <li>Quechua: {{t|1=qu|2=kamachiy}}</li> <li>Romanian: {{t+|1=ro|2=lege|3=f}}, (please <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:Translations#Translations_to_be_checked" title="Wiktionary:Translations">verify</a>) <a href="/wiki/drept#Romanian" title="drept">drept</a> <a href="https://ro.wiktionary.org/wiki/drept" class="extiw" title="ro:drept">(ro)</a></li> <li>Russian: {{t+|1=ru|2=пра́во|3=n}}, {{t+|1=ru|2=зако́н|3=m}}</li> <li>Serbo-Croatian: <dl><dd>Cyrillic: {{t|1=sh|2=за́кон|3=m}}, {{t|1=sh|2=пра̏вило|3=n}}, {{t|1=sh|2=пра́во|3=n}}</dd> <dd>Roman: {{t+|1=sh|2=zákon|3=m}}, {{t+|1=sh|2=prȁvilo|3=n}}, {{t+|1=sh|2=právo|3=n}}</dd></dl></li> <li>Shan: <a href="/w/index.php?title=%E1%80%99%E1%81%A2%E1%82%86%E1%80%99%E1%80%AE%E1%82%88&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="မၢႆမီႈ (page does not exist)">မၢႆမီႈ</a> <a href="https://shn.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E1%80%99%E1%81%A2%E1%82%86%E1%80%99%E1%80%AE%E1%82%88" class="extiw" title="shn:မၢႆမီႈ">(shn)</a> (mǎai mīi)</li> <li>Sicilian: {{t+|1=scn|2=dirittu|3=m}}, {{t|1=scn|2=liggi|3=f}}, {{t+|1=scn|2=jussu|3=m}}</li> <li>Sidamo: {{t|1=sid|2=higge}}</li> <li>Slovak: {{t|1=sk|2=právo|3=n}}, {{t+|1=sk|2=zákon|3=m}}</li> <li>Slovene: {{t+|1=sl|2=pravo|3=n}}, {{t+|1=sl|2=zakon|3=m}}</li> <li>Somali: {{t+|1=so|2=sharci}}, {{t|1=so|2=xeer}}</li> <li>Sorbian: <dl><dd>Lower Sorbian: {{t|1=dsb|2=pšawo|3=n}}</dd></dl></li> <li>Spanish: {{t+|1=es|2=ley|3=f}}, {{t+|1=es|2=derecho|3=m}}</li> <li>Swahili: {{t+|1=sw|2=sheria}}</li> <li>Swedish: {{t+|1=sv|2=lag|3=c}}, (please <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:Translations#Translations_to_be_checked" title="Wiktionary:Translations">verify</a>) <a href="/wiki/r%C3%A4tt#Swedish" title="rätt">rätt</a> <a href="https://sv.wiktionary.org/wiki/r%C3%A4tt" class="extiw" title="sv:rätt">(sv)</a> <abbr title="common gender">c</abbr></li> <li>Tagalog: {{t|1=tl|2=batas}}, {{t|1=tl|2=dalubbatasan}}</li> <li>Tai Dam: <a href="/w/index.php?title=%EA%AA%B6%EA%AA%80%EA%AA%92%EA%AA%A2%EA%AA%B1%EA%AA%A5&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="ꪶꪀꪒꪢꪱꪥ (page does not exist)">ꪶꪀꪒꪢꪱꪥ</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=%EA%AA%A9%EA%AA%BA%EA%AA%92&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="ꪩꪺꪒ (page does not exist)">ꪩꪺꪒ</a></li> <li>Tajik: {{t+|1=tg|2=қонун}}</li> <li>Telugu: {{t+|1=te|2=చట్టము}}, (please <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:Translations#Translations_to_be_checked" title="Wiktionary:Translations">verify</a>) <a href="/w/index.php?title=%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%AE%E0%B1%81&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="న్యాయశాస్త్రము (page does not exist)">న్యాయశాస్త్రము</a> <a href="https://te.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%B0%A8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%AF%E0%B0%B6%E0%B0%BE%E0%B0%B8%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%A4%E0%B1%8D%E0%B0%B0%E0%B0%AE%E0%B1%81" class="extiw" title="te:న్యాయశాస్త్రము">(te)</a> (nyāyaśāstramu)</li> <li>Thai: <a href="/wiki/%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%8E%E0%B8%AB%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%A2#Thai" title="กฎหมาย">กฎหมาย</a> <a href="https://th.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%B8%81%E0%B8%8E%E0%B8%AB%E0%B8%A1%E0%B8%B2%E0%B8%A2" class="extiw" title="th:กฎหมาย">(th)</a> (gòt-mǎai)</li> <li>Tocharian B: {{t|1=txb|2=pele}}</li> <li>Tok Pisin: {{t|1=tpi|2=lo}}</li> <li>Turkish: {{t+|1=tr|2=yasa}}, {{t+|1=tr|2=kanun}}, {{t+|1=tr|2=hukuk}}</li> <li>Urdu: {{t+|1=ur|2=قانُون|3=m}}</li> <li>Uyghur: <a href="/wiki/%DA%BE%D9%88%D9%82%DB%87%D9%82#Uyghur" title="ھوقۇق">ھوقۇق</a> (hoquq)</li> <li>Uzbek: {{t+|1=uz|2=huquq}}</li> <li>Venetan: {{t|1=vec|2=lège|3=f}}</li> <li>Vietnamese: {{t+|1=vi|2=pháp luật}} ({{t|1=vi|2=法律}}), {{t+|1=vi|2=luật}}</li> <li>Volapük: {{t+|1=vo|2=lon}}, {{t+|1=vo|2=lonem}}</li> <li>Walloon: {{t+|1=wa|2=lwè|3=f}}</li> <li>Welsh: {{t+|1=cy|2=cyfraith|3=f}}</li> <li>White Hmong: <a href="/wiki/cai#White_Hmong" title="cai">cai</a></li> <li>Yakut: {{t|1=sah|2=сокуон}}</li> <li>Zazaki: {{t|1=zza|2=soret|3=f}}, {{t|1=zza|2=huquq|3=m}}</li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-any_rule_that_must_or_should_be_obeyed"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">any rule that must or should be obeyed</div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="any rule that must or should be obeyed"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r81584270"> <ul><li>Afrikaans: {{t+|1=af|2=wet}}</li> <li>Albanian: {{t|1=sq|2=ligj|3=m}}</li> <li>Amharic: {{t|1=am|2=ሕግ}}</li> <li>Arabic: {{t+|1=ar|2=قَانُون|3=m}}, <a href="/wiki/%D8%AD%D9%82#Arabic" title="حق">حُقُوق</a> <a href="https://ar.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D8%AD%D9%82" class="extiw" title="ar:حق">(ar)</a> <abbr title="plural number">pl</abbr> (ḥuqūq)</li> <li>Armenian: {{t+|1=hy|2=օրենք}}</li> <li>Aromanian: {{t|1=rup|2=nom|3=n}}, {{t|1=rup|2=zãcon|3=n}}, {{t|1=rup|2=zaconj|3=n}}, {{t|1=rup|2=leadzi|3=f}}</li> <li>Assamese: {{t|1=as|2=আইন}}</li> <li>Asturian: {{t+|1=ast|2=llei|3=f}}</li> <li>Avestan: {{t|1=ae|2=𐬛𐬁𐬙𐬀}}</li> <li>Azerbaijani: {{t+|1=az|2=qanun}}</li> <li>Baluchi: {{t|1=bal|2=کانود|tr=kánúd}}, {{t|1=bal|2=قانود|tr=qánúd}}</li> <li>Bashkir: {{t|1=ba|2=хоҡуҡ}}</li> <li>Basque: {{t|1=eu|2=lege}}</li> <li>Belarusian: {{t|1=be|2=зако́н|3=m}}</li> <li>Bengali: {{t+|1=bn|2=আইন}}, {{t+|1=bn|2=কানুন}}, {{t+|1=bn|2=নিয়ম}}</li> <li>Breton: {{t+|1=br|2=lezenn|3=f}}</li> <li>Bulgarian: {{t+|1=bg|2=зако́н|3=m}}</li> <li>Burmese: {{t+|1=my|2=ဥပဒေ}}</li> <li>Catalan: {{t+|1=ca|2=llei|3=f}}</li> <li>Chinese: <dl><dd>Cantonese: {{t|1=yue|2=法律}}</dd> <dd>Dungan: {{t|1=dng|2=фалү}}</dd> <dd>Eastern Min: {{t|1=cdo|2=法律}}</dd> <dd>Hakka: {{t|1=hak|2=法律|tr=fap-li̍t}}</dd> <dd>Hokkien: {{t+|1=nan-hbl|2=法律|tr=hoat-lu̍t}}</dd> <dd>Mandarin: {{t+|1=cmn|2=法律}}</dd> <dd>Wu: {{t|1=wuu|2=法律}}</dd></dl></li> <li>Czech: {{t+|1=cs|2=zákon|3=m}}</li> <li>Danish: {{t+|1=da|2=lov|3=c}}</li> <li>Dutch: {{t+|1=nl|2=wet|3=m}}</li> <li>Elfdalian: {{t|1=ovd|2=lag|3=m}}</li> <li>Esperanto: {{t+|1=eo|2=leĝo}}</li> <li>Estonian: {{t+|1=et|2=seadus}}</li> <li>Ewe: {{t|1=ee|2=se}}</li> <li>Faroese: {{t|1=fo|2=lóg|3=f}}</li> <li>Finnish: {{t+|1=fi|2=laki}}</li> <li>French: {{t+|1=fr|2=loi|3=f}}</li> <li>Friulian: {{t|1=fur|2=leç}}, {{t|1=fur|2=leğ|3=f}}</li> <li>Gagauz: {{t|1=gag|2=zakon}}</li> <li>Galician: {{t+|1=gl|2=lei|3=f}}</li> <li>Georgian: {{t|1=ka|2=კანონი}}</li> <li>German: {{t+|1=de|2=Gesetz|3=n}}</li> <li>Greek: {{t+|1=el|2=νόμος|3=m}} <dl><dd>Ancient: {{t|1=grc|2=νόμος|3=m}}</dd></dl></li> <li>Greenlandic: {{t|1=kl|2=inatsit}}</li> <li>Haitian Creole: {{t|1=ht|2=lalwa}}</li> <li>Hebrew: {{t+|1=he|2=דִּין|3=m|tr=din}}, {{t+|1=he|2=חוק|3=m|tr=khok|alt=חוק \ חֹק}}</li> <li>Hindi: {{t|1=hi|2=क़ानून|3=m}}, {{t+|1=hi|2=नियम|3=m}}, <a href="/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A7%E0%A4%BF#Hindi" title="विधि">विधि</a> <a href="https://hi.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A7%E0%A4%BF" class="extiw" title="hi:विधि">(hi)</a> <abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr> (vidhi), <a href="/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A7%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8#Hindi" title="विधान">विधान</a> <a href="https://hi.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B5%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A7%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%A8" class="extiw" title="hi:विधान">(hi)</a> (vidhān)</li> <li>Hungarian: {{t+|1=hu|2=törvény}}</li> <li>Icelandic: {{t+|1=is|2=lög|3=n-p}}</li> <li>Indonesian: {{t+|1=id|2=hukum}}, {{t+|1=id|2=undang-undang}}</li> <li>Ingrian: <a href="/wiki/zakona#Ingrian" title="zakona">zakona</a></li> <li>Irish: {{t+|1=ga|2=dlí|3=m}}</li> <li>Italian: {{t+|1=it|2=legge|3=f}}</li> <li>Japanese: {{t+|1=ja|2=法|tr=ほう, hō}}</li> <li>Kannada: {{t+|1=kn|2=ಕಾನೂನು}}, {{t+|1=kn|2=ಕಾಯ್ದೆ}}</li> <li>Kazakh: {{t|1=kk|2=заң}}, <a href="/wiki/%D2%9B%D2%B1%D2%9B%D1%8B%D2%9B#Kazakh" title="құқық">құқық</a> <a href="https://kk.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D2%9B%D2%B1%D2%9B%D1%8B%D2%9B" class="extiw" title="kk:құқық">(kk)</a> (qūqyq)</li> <li>Khmer: {{t+|1=km|2=ច្បាប់}}</li> <li>Korean: {{t+|1=ko|2=법(法)}}</li> <li>Kurdish: <dl><dd>Central Kurdish: {{t|1=ckb|2=یاسا}}</dd> <dd>Northern Kurdish: {{t+|1=kmr|2=qanûn|3=f}}, {{t+|1=kmr|2=zagon|3=f}}, {{t+|1=kmr|2=yasa|3=f}}</dd></dl></li> <li>Kyrgyz: {{t+|1=ky|2=мыйзам}}, {{t+|1=ky|2=закон}}, {{t+|1=ky|2=заң}}, {{t+|1=ky|2=кай}}, <a href="/wiki/%D1%83%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%BA#Kyrgyz" title="укук">укук</a> <a href="https://ky.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D1%83%D0%BA%D1%83%D0%BA" class="extiw" title="ky:укук">(ky)</a> (ukuk)</li> <li>Ladin: {{t|1=lld|2=lege}}</li> <li>Lao: {{t+|1=lo|2=ກົດໝາຍ}}</li> <li>Latgalian: {{t|1=ltg|2=likums|3=m}}</li> <li>Latin: {{t+|1=la|2=lex|3=f}}</li> <li>Latvian: {{t|1=lv|2=likums|3=m}}</li> <li>Lithuanian: {{t+|1=lt|2=įstatymas|3=m}}</li> <li>Luxembourgish: {{t|1=lb|2=Gesetz|3=n}}</li> <li>Macedonian: {{t|1=mk|2=закон|3=m}}, {{t|1=mk|2=право|3=n}}</li> <li>Malay: {{t+|1=ms|2=peraturan}}, {{t+|1=ms|2=undang-undang}}</li> <li>Malayalam: {{t+|1=ml|2=നിയമം}}</li> <li>Maltese: {{t|1=mt|2=liġi}}</li> <li>Manchu: {{t|1=mnc|2=ᡴᠣᠣᠯᡳ ᡶᠠᡶᡠᠨ}}</li> <li>Maori: {{t+|1=mi|2=ture}}</li> <li>Marathi: {{t|1=mr|2=कायदा|3=m}}</li> <li>Marrucinian: {{t|1=umc|2=lixs}}</li> <li>Middle English: {{t|1=enm|2=lawe}}</li> <li>Middle Persian: {{t|1=pal|2=dād}}</li> <li>Mongolian: <dl><dd>Cyrillic: {{t+|1=mn|2=хууль}}</dd> <dd>Mongolian: {{t|1=mn|2=ᠬᠠᠤᠯᠢ}}</dd></dl></li> <li>Nahuatl: {{t+|1=nah|2=nauatili}}</li> <li>Navajo: {{t|1=nv|2=bee hazʼáanii}}</li> <li>Norman: {{t|1=nrf|2=louai|3=f}}</li> <li>Northern Sami: {{t|1=se|2=láhka}}</li> <li>Norwegian: <dl><dd>Bokmål: {{t+|1=nb|2=lov|3=m}}, {{t+|1=nb|2=lag|3=m}} (obsolete)</dd> <dd>Nynorsk: <a href="/wiki/lov#Norwegian_Nynorsk" title="lov">lov</a> <abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr> or <abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></dd></dl></li> <li>Odia: {{t+|1=or|2=ନିୟମ}}, {{t|1=or|2=ଆଇନ୍}}</li> <li>Old Church Slavonic: <dl><dd>Cyrillic: {{t|1=cu|2=законъ|3=m}}</dd> <dd>Glagolitic: {{t|1=cu|2=ⰸⰰⰽⱁⱀⱏ|3=m}}</dd></dl></li> <li>Old East Slavic: {{t|1=orv|2=законъ|3=m}}</li> <li>Old English: {{t|1=ang|2=dōm}}, {{t|1=ang|2=ǣ|3=f}}</li> <li>Old Occitan: {{t|1=pro|2=ley}}</li> <li>Old Persian: {{t|1=peo|tr=dāta}}</li> <li>Oromo: {{t|1=om|2=seera}}</li> <li>Ossetian: {{t|1=os|2=закъон}}</li> <li>Palauan: {{t|1=pau|2=llach}}</li> <li>Pashto: {{t+|1=ps|2=قانون|3=m|tr=qānun}}</li> <li>Persian: <dl><dd>Dari: {{t+|1=prs|2=قَانُون}}, {{t+|1=prs|2=حُقُوق}}</dd> <dd>Iranian Persian: {{t+|1=fa-ira|2=قانون}}, {{t+|1=fa-ira|2=حُقوق}}</dd></dl></li> <li>Polish: {{t+|1=pl|2=prawo|3=n}}, {{t+|1=pl|2=reguła|3=f}}, {{t+|1=pl|2=zasada|3=f}}, {{t+|1=pl|2=przepis|3=m}}</li> <li>Portuguese: {{t+|1=pt|2=lei|3=f}}</li> <li>Romanian: {{t+|1=ro|2=lege|3=f}}</li> <li>Romansch: {{t|1=rm|2=dretg|3=m}}</li> <li>Russian: {{t+|1=ru|2=зако́н|3=m}}, {{t+|1=ru|2=пра́вило|3=n}}, {{t+|1=ru|2=пра́во|3=n}}</li> <li>Sanskrit: {{t+|1=sa|2=नियम|3=m}}, {{t+|1=sa|2=न्याय|3=m}}</li> <li>Sardinian: {{t|1=sc|2=lei|3=f}}</li> <li>Scots: {{t|1=sco|2=law}}</li> <li>Serbo-Croatian: <dl><dd>Cyrillic: {{t|1=sh|2=за́кон|3=m}}, {{t|1=sh|2=пра̏вило|3=n}}</dd> <dd>Roman: {{t+|1=sh|2=zákon|3=m}}, {{t+|1=sh|2=prȁvilo|3=n}}</dd></dl></li> <li>Shan: {{t+|1=shn|2=တြႃး}}, {{t+|1=shn|2=မၢႆမီႈ}}</li> <li>Shor: {{t|1=cjs|2=чозақ|tr=çozaq}}</li> <li>Sicilian: {{t|1=scn|2=liggi}}, {{t+|1=scn|2=règula|3=f}}, {{t|1=scn|2=norma|3=f}}</li> <li>Sinhalese: {{t|1=si|2=නීතිය}}</li> <li>Slovak: {{t+|1=sk|2=zákon|3=m}}</li> <li>Slovene: {{t+|1=sl|2=zakon|3=m}}</li> <li>Sorbian: <dl><dd>Lower Sorbian: {{t|1=dsb|2=kazń|3=f}}</dd> <dd>Upper Sorbian: {{t|1=hsb|2=zakoń|3=m}}</dd></dl></li> <li>Spanish: {{t+|1=es|2=ley|3=f}}</li> <li>Swahili: {{t+|1=sw|2=kanuni}}</li> <li>Swedish: {{t+|1=sv|2=lag|3=c}}, {{t+|1=sv|2=regel|3=c}}</li> <li>Tagalog: {{t|1=tl|2=batas}}</li> <li>Tajik: {{t+|1=tg|2=қонун}}, <a href="/wiki/%D2%B3%D1%83%D2%9B%D1%83%D2%9B#Tajik" title="ҳуқуқ">ҳуқуқ</a> <a href="https://tg.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D2%B3%D1%83%D2%9B%D1%83%D2%9B" class="extiw" title="tg:ҳуқуқ">(tg)</a> (huquq)</li> <li>Tamil: {{t+|1=ta|2=சட்டம்}}</li> <li>Taos: {{t|1=twf|2=láyna}}</li> <li>Tatar: {{t+|1=tt|2=канун}}, {{t+|1=tt|2=хокук}}</li> <li>Telugu: {{t+|1=te|2=నియమము}}, {{t+|1=te|2=చట్టము}}</li> <li>Thai: {{t+|1=th|2=กฎหมาย}}</li> <li>Tibetan: {{t|1=bo|2=ཁྲིམས}}</li> <li>Tigrinya: {{t|1=ti|2=ሕጊ}}, {{t|1=ti|2=ስርዓት}}</li> <li>Tok Pisin: {{t|1=tpi|2=lo}}</li> <li>Turkish: {{t+|1=tr|2=kanun}}, {{t+|1=tr|2=yasa}}, <a href="/wiki/hukuk#Turkish" title="hukuk">hukuk</a> <a href="https://tr.wiktionary.org/wiki/hukuk" class="extiw" title="tr:hukuk">(tr)</a></li> <li>Turkmen: {{t|1=tk|2=kanun}}</li> <li>Ukrainian: {{t+|1=uk|2=зако́н|3=m}}</li> <li>Urdu: {{t+|1=ur|2=قانُون|3=m}}, <a href="/wiki/%D8%AD%D9%82%D9%88%D9%82#Urdu" title="حقوق">حُقُوق</a> <a href="https://ur.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D8%AD%D9%82%D9%88%D9%82" class="extiw" title="ur:حقوق">(ur)</a> <abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr> <abbr title="plural number">pl</abbr> (huqūq)</li> <li>Uyghur: {{t|1=ug|2=قانۇن}}</li> <li>Uzbek: {{t+|1=uz|2=qonun}}, <a href="/wiki/huquq#Uzbek" title="huquq">huquq</a> <a href="https://uz.wiktionary.org/wiki/huquq" class="extiw" title="uz:huquq">(uz)</a></li> <li>Venetan: {{t|1=vec|2=lexe}}, {{t|1=vec|2=leje}}, {{t|1=vec|2=lege}}</li> <li>Vietnamese: {{t+|1=vi|2=pháp luật}} ({{t|1=vi|2=法律}}), {{t+|1=vi|2=luật pháp}}</li> <li>Welsh: {{t+|1=cy|2=cyfraith|3=f}}</li> <li>Yakut: {{t|1=sah|2=сокуон}}</li> <li>Yiddish: {{t|1=yi|2=געזעץ}}</li> <li>Zazaki: {{t|1=zza|2=soret|3=f}}</li> <li>Zhuang: {{t|1=za|2=faplwd}}</li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-statement_of_(observed,_established)_order,_sequence_or_relationship_of_phenomena"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">statement of (observed, established) order, sequence or relationship of phenomena</div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="statement of (observed, established) order, sequence or relationship of phenomena"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r81584270"> <ul><li>Arabic: {{t+|1=ar|2=قَانُون|3=m}}</li> <li>Armenian: {{t+|1=hy|2=օրենք}}</li> <li>Bengali: {{t+|1=bn|2=নিয়ম}}</li> <li>Bulgarian: {{t+|1=bg|2=зако́н|3=m}}</li> <li>Chinese: <dl><dd>Cantonese: {{t|1=yue|2=定律}}</dd> <dd>Hokkien: {{t+|1=nan-hbl|2=定律|tr=tēng-lu̍t}}</dd> <dd>Mandarin: {{t+|1=cmn|2=定律}}</dd></dl></li> <li>Czech: {{t+|1=cs|2=zákon|3=m}}</li> <li>Danish: {{t+|1=da|2=lov|3=c}}</li> <li>Dutch: {{t+|1=nl|2=wet|3=m}}</li> <li>Estonian: {{t+|1=et|2=seadus}}, {{t|1=et|2=seaduspärasus}}</li> <li>Finnish: {{t+|1=fi|2=laki}}</li> <li>French: {{t+|1=fr|2=loi|3=f}}, {{t+|1=fr|2=théorème|3=m}}</li> <li>German: {{t+|1=de|2=Gesetz|3=n}}</li> <li>Hebrew: {{t+|1=he|2=חוק|3=m|tr=choqq|alt=חוק \ חֹק}}</li> <li>Hindi: <a href="/wiki/%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%AE#Hindi" title="नियम">नियम</a> <a href="https://hi.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%A4%A8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%AF%E0%A4%AE" class="extiw" title="hi:नियम">(hi)</a> (niyam)</li> <li>Hungarian: {{t+|1=hu|2=törvény}}</li> <li>Icelandic: {{t|1=is|2=lögmál|3=n}}</li> <li>Interlingua: {{t+|1=ia|2=lege}}</li> <li>Irish: {{t+|1=ga|2=dlí|3=m}}</li> <li>Italian: {{t+|1=it|2=legge|3=f}}</li> <li>Japanese: {{t+|1=ja|2=法則|tr=ほうそく, hōsoku}}</li> <li>Kannada: {{t+|1=kn|2=ನಿಯಮ}}</li> <li>Korean: {{t+|1=ko|2=법칙(法則)}}</li> <li>Latin: {{t+|1=la|2=lex|3=f}}</li> <li>Latvian: {{t|1=lv|2=likums|3=m}}</li> <li>Lithuanian: {{t|1=lt|2=dėsnis|3=m}}</li> <li>Malay: {{t|1=ms|2=hukum}}</li> <li>Middle English: {{t|1=enm|2=lawe}}</li> <li>Persian: <dl><dd>Dari: {{t+|1=prs|2=قَانُون}}</dd> <dd>Iranian Persian: {{t+|1=fa-ira|2=قانون}}</dd></dl></li> <li>Polish: {{t+|1=pl|2=prawo|3=n}}</li> <li>Portuguese: {{t+|1=pt|2=lei|3=f}}</li> <li>Romanian: {{t+|1=ro|2=lege|3=f}}</li> <li>Russian: {{t+|1=ru|2=зако́н|3=m}}</li> <li>Sicilian: {{t|1=scn|2=liggi|3=f}}</li> <li>Slovene: {{t+|1=sl|2=zakon|3=m}}</li> <li>Spanish: {{t+|1=es|2=ley|3=f}}</li> <li>Swahili: {{t+|1=sw|2=kanuni}}</li> <li>Swedish: {{t+|1=sv|2=lag|3=c}}</li> <li>Telugu: {{t+|1=te|2=సిద్ధాంతము}}</li> <li>Turkish: {{t+|1=tr|2=kanun}}, {{t+|1=tr|2=yasa}}, {{t+|1=tr|2=ilke}}</li> <li>Vietnamese: {{t+|1=vi|2=định luật}} ({{t|1=vi|2=定律}})</li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-mathematics:_statement_that_is_true_under_specified_conditions"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">mathematics: statement that is true under specified conditions</div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="mathematics: statement that is true under specified conditions"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r81584270"> <ul><li>Armenian: {{t+|1=hy|2=օրենք}}</li> <li>Czech: {{t+|1=cs|2=zákon|3=m}}</li> <li>Danish: {{t+|1=da|2=lov|3=c}}</li> <li>Estonian: {{t|1=et|2=reegel}}, {{t+|1=et|2=seadus}}</li> <li>Finnish: {{t+|1=fi|2=laki}}, {{t+|1=fi|2=sääntö}}</li> <li>French: {{t+|1=fr|2=loi|3=f}}</li> <li>German: {{t+|1=de|2=Gesetz|3=n}}</li> <li>Hindi: {{t+|1=hi|2=नियम|3=m}}, <a href="/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A7%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A4#Hindi" title="सिद्धांत">सिद्धांत</a> <a href="https://hi.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%A6%E0%A5%8D%E0%A4%A7%E0%A4%BE%E0%A4%82%E0%A4%A4" class="extiw" title="hi:सिद्धांत">(hi)</a> (siddhānt)</li> <li>Hungarian: {{t+|1=hu|2=törvény}}</li> <li>Irish: {{t+|1=ga|2=dlí|3=m}}</li> <li>Italian: {{t+|1=it|2=legge|3=f}}</li> <li>Japanese: {{t+|1=ja|2=法則|tr=ほうそく, hōsoku}}, {{t+|1=ja|2=律|tr=りつ, ritsu}}</li> <li>Kannada: {{t+|1=kn|2=ನಿಯಮ}}</li> <li>Korean: {{t+|1=ko|2=법칙(法則)}}</li> <li>Latin: {{t+|1=la|2=lex|3=f}}</li> <li>Persian: <dl><dd>Dari: {{t+|1=prs|2=قَانُون}}</dd> <dd>Iranian Persian: {{t+|1=fa-ira|2=قانون}}</dd></dl></li> <li>Polish: {{t+|1=pl|2=reguła|3=f}}</li> <li>Portuguese: {{t+|1=pt|2=lei|3=f}}</li> <li>Romanian: {{t+|1=ro|2=lege|3=f}}</li> <li>Russian: {{t+|1=ru|2=зако́н|3=m}}</li> <li>Sicilian: {{t|1=scn|2=liggi|3=f}}</li> <li>Slovene: {{t+|1=sl|2=zakon|3=m}}</li> <li>Spanish: {{t+|1=es|2=ley|3=f}}</li> <li>Swedish: {{t+|1=sv|2=lag|3=c}}</li> <li>Telugu: {{t+|1=te|2=సూత్రము}}</li> <li>Turkish: {{t+|1=tr|2=kanun}}</li> <li>Zazaki: {{t+|1=zza|2=qanun|3=m}}</li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-informal:_the_police"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">informal: the police</div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="informal: the police"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r81584270"> <ul><li>Danish: {{t|1=da|2=loven|3=c}} (definite form)</li> <li>Finnish: {{t|1=fi|2=kytät|3=p}}</li> <li>German: {{t+|1=de|2=Gesetz|3=n}}</li> <li>Hungarian: {{t+|1=hu|2=rendőr}}</li> <li>Italian: {{t+|1=it|2=legge|3=f}}</li> <li>Polish: {{t+|1=pl|2=stróż prawa|3=m}}</li> <li>Portuguese: {{t+|1=pt|2=lei|3=f}}</li> <li>Romanian: {{t+|1=ro|2=lege|3=f}}</li> <li>Russian: {{t+|1=ru|2=поли́ция|3=f}}</li> <li>Sicilian: {{t|1=scn|2=liggi|3=f}}</li> <li>Turkish: {{t+|1=tr|2=kanun}}, {{t+|1=tr|2=asayiş}}</li> <li>Zazaki: {{t|1=zza|2=asayış|3=m}}</li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> <div class="NavFrame" id="Translations-the_legal_profession"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">the legal profession</div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="the legal profession"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r81584270"> <ul><li>Hebrew: {{t+|1=he|2=עֲרִיכַת דִּין|3=f|tr=arikhát dín}}</li> <li>Italian: {{t+|1=it|2=legge|3=f}}</li> <li>Sicilian: {{t|1=scn|2=liggi|3=f}}</li> <li>Zazaki: {{t|1=zza|2=heqat|3=f}}</li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> <div class="pseudo NavFrame" id="Translations-jurisprudence"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">jurisprudence — see <a href="/wiki/jurisprudence#Translations" title="jurisprudence">jurisprudence</a></div></div> <div class="checktrans"> <dl><dd>The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions at <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:Entry_layout#Translations" title="Wiktionary:Entry layout">Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations</a>.</dd></dl> </div> <div class="NavFrame"><div class="NavHead" style="text-align:left">Translations to be checked</div><div class="NavContent"><table class="translations" role="presentation" data-gloss="Translations to be checked"><tbody><tr><td class="translations-cell multicolumn-list" colspan="3"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r81584270"> <ul><li>Arabic: (please <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:Translations#Translations_to_be_checked" title="Wiktionary:Translations">verify</a>) <a href="/wiki/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86#Arabic" title="قانون">قَانُون</a> <a href="https://ar.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D9%82%D8%A7%D9%86%D9%88%D9%86" class="extiw" title="ar:قانون">(ar)</a> <abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr> (qānūn), (please <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:Translations#Translations_to_be_checked" title="Wiktionary:Translations">verify</a>) <a href="/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B9%D8%A9#Arabic" title="شريعة">شَرِيعَة</a> <a href="https://ar.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B9%D8%A9" class="extiw" title="ar:شريعة">(ar)</a> <abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr> (šarīʕa), (please <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:Translations#Translations_to_be_checked" title="Wiktionary:Translations">verify</a>) <a href="/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%B1%D8%B9#Arabic" title="شرع">شَرْع</a> <a href="https://ar.wiktionary.org/wiki/%D8%B4%D8%B1%D8%B9" class="extiw" title="ar:شرع">(ar)</a> <abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr> (šarʕ)</li> <li>Guerrero Amuzgo: (please <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:Translations#Translations_to_be_checked" title="Wiktionary:Translations">verify</a>) <a href="/wiki/l%C3%AA#Guerrero_Amuzgo" title="lê">lê</a></li> <li>Indonesian: (please <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:Translations#Translations_to_be_checked" title="Wiktionary:Translations">verify</a>) <a href="/wiki/hukum#Indonesian" title="hukum">hukum</a> <a href="https://id.wiktionary.org/wiki/hukum" class="extiw" title="id:hukum">(id)</a>, (please <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:Translations#Translations_to_be_checked" title="Wiktionary:Translations">verify</a>) <a href="/wiki/atur#Indonesian" title="atur">peraturan</a> <a href="https://id.wiktionary.org/wiki/atur" class="extiw" title="id:atur">(id)</a> , (please <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:Translations#Translations_to_be_checked" title="Wiktionary:Translations">verify</a>) <a href="/w/index.php?title=tata-tertib&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="tata-tertib (page does not exist)">tata-tertib</a></li> <li>Interlingua: (please <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:Translations#Translations_to_be_checked" title="Wiktionary:Translations">verify</a>) <a href="/wiki/lege#Interlingua" title="lege">lege</a> <a href="https://ia.wiktionary.org/wiki/lege" class="extiw" title="ia:lege">(ia)</a></li> <li>Romanian: (please <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:Translations#Translations_to_be_checked" title="Wiktionary:Translations">verify</a>) <a href="/wiki/lege#Romanian" title="lege">lege</a> <a href="https://ro.wiktionary.org/wiki/lege" class="extiw" title="ro:lege">(ro)</a> <abbr title="feminine gender">f</abbr></li> <li>Turkish: (please <a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:Translations#Translations_to_be_checked" title="Wiktionary:Translations">verify</a>) <a href="/wiki/hukuk#Turkish" title="hukuk">hukuk</a> <a href="https://tr.wiktionary.org/wiki/hukuk" class="extiw" title="tr:hukuk">(tr)</a></li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Verb">Verb</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Verb">edit</a>]</div> law (third-person singular simple present <a href="/wiki/laws#English" title="laws">laws</a>, present participle <a href="/wiki/lawing#English" title="lawing">lawing</a>, simple past and past participle <a href="/wiki/lawed#English" title="lawed">lawed</a>) <ol><li>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#obsolete" title="Appendix:Glossary">obsolete</a>) To <a href="/wiki/work" title="work">work</a> as a <a href="/wiki/lawyer" title="lawyer">lawyer</a>; to <a href="/wiki/practice" title="practice">practice</a> <a href="#Noun">law</a>. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">1889, New York (State). Court of Appeals, <cite>New York Court of Appeals. Records and Briefs</cite>, page 71:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">That was in 1877 you were lawing with Herdick?</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1897, <cite>The Scroll of Phi Delta Theta - Volume 21</cite>, page 210:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">J. H. Turner is married and lawing in Milwaukee.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1923, Briton Hadden, <cite>Time - Volume 29</cite>, page 59:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">The American Bar Association ruefully admits that the legal profession is overcrowded, especially in large cities. It has a committee studying the situation. Last week an editorial in the New York Law Journal urged a youthful revolt against the city, twanged an idyll of lawing in the country.</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>(<a href="/wiki/transitive" title="transitive">transitive</a>, <a href="/wiki/intransitive" title="intransitive">intransitive</a>, chiefly <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#dialectal" title="Appendix:Glossary">dialectal</a>) To <a href="/wiki/prosecute" title="prosecute">prosecute</a> or <a href="/wiki/sue" title="sue">sue</a> (someone), to <a href="/wiki/litigate" title="litigate">litigate</a>. <ul><li>1860, George Eliot (Mary Anne Lewes), The Mill on the Floss: <dl><dd>Your husband's [...] so given to lawing, they say. I doubt he'll leave you poorly off when he dies.</dd></dl></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1886, Charles Dudley Warner, <cite>Their Pilgrimage</cite>, page 144:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">"I like folks to be up and down and square," she began saying, as she vigilantly watched the effect of her culinary skill upon the awed little party. "Yes, I've got a regular hotel license; you bet I have. There's been folks lawed in this town for sellin' a meal of victuals and not having one."</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">2014, Joseph Andrew Orser, <cite>The Lives of Chang and Eng: Siam's Twins in Nineteenth-Century America</cite>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">“So I said to her, 'Well, no man ever made anything lawing with his wife, so, if your mind is set on having a divorce and the children you will want plenty to raise them with,' so I deed her the farm in Sumner county and everything on it—horses, mules, machinery, everything.”</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#nonstandard" title="Appendix:Glossary">nonstandard</a>) To <a href="/wiki/rule" title="rule">rule</a> over (with a certain effect) by <a href="#Noun">law</a>; to <a href="/wiki/govern" title="govern">govern</a>. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">1939, Henry Green Hodges, <cite>City management: theory and practice of municipal administration</cite>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">At its 1933 session, the Kansas legislature provided for funding outstanding bills and floating debts of those cities which could not make payment by a fixed date. By this stroke of its imagination, the legislature lawed all Kansas cities onto a "cash" basis and admonished them to stay there.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1969, <cite>Aryan Path - Volume 40</cite>, page 338:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">Earth lies in the chorus of the stars' congregation in the lawed line of their movement, in the balanced rotation of their light, bound by that lawed line, conceived in the focus of that turning; a vessel fashioned on the wheel of endless time.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1979, Gokhale, <cite>Surat In The Seventeenth Century</cite>, <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/8171542204" title="Special:BookSources/8171542204">→ISBN</a>, page 27:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">Nicholas Downton (February 1615) says of the people of Surat: "a mixt people, quiet, peaceable, very subtle; civil, and universally governed under one King, but diversely lawed and customed".</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">2007, Henry Grenryk Ledesma, <cite>The Little Book: The Sound of the Seventh Trumpet</cite>, page 38:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">So that, when GOD said, “Let there be light:” Behold the first created light burst out unto its glory (here GOD lawed the power of heat, fire, light, melting, cooling, and freezing)</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">2011, Brian Freemantle, <cite>The Iron Cage</cite>, <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1453226672" title="Special:BookSources/1453226672">→ISBN</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">Beyond the ocher and yellow-washed buildings, French colonial with a suggestion of Beau Geste from the castellated balconies, it is an arm-grabbing, loosely lawed bazaar of a place.</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#informal" title="Appendix:Glossary">informal</a>) To <a href="/wiki/enforce" title="enforce">enforce</a> the <a href="#Noun">law</a>. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">1918, Eldred Kurtz Means, <cite>E.K. Means</cite>, page 50:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">De gram jury lawed me all de time an' dat place got too hot.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1972, Bill Peterson, <cite>Coaltown revisited: an Appalachian notebook</cite>, page 28:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">The only time I ever got lawed [arrested] was for the union. Happened three times.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">2008, Ron McLarty, <cite>Art in America: A Novel</cite>, <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1440629935" title="Special:BookSources/1440629935">→ISBN</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">So we're on the road with the micks, maybe a mile from the precinct, and Reedy just pulls over, takes them out onto the Commons, takes off the cuffs, and we knock about twenty pounds of shit out of them.” Petey sensed the agent watching him talk and tried to explain it all another way. “What I mean is, lawing used to be pretty damn pure.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">2013, J B Bergstad, <cite>Hyde's Corner - Book II - In The Name of Vengeance</cite>, <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0988806835" title="Special:BookSources/0988806835">→ISBN</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">The sheriff jabbed his thumb at his chest. "I run this shebang. Been doing so for forty-six years. You think you can come in here and preach lawing to me?</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>To <a href="/wiki/subject" title="subject">subject</a> to <a href="/wiki/legal" title="legal">legal</a> <a href="/wiki/restriction" title="restriction">restrictions</a>. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">1895, <cite>The Chronicle - Volumes 55-56</cite>, page 125:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">Insurance may fairly be said to head the list of objects of legislative interference. It has been lawed and lawed until it is nearly outlawed, and the cry for more continues to go up unsatisfied</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1914, <cite>California Outlook - Volume 16</cite>, page lxx:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">No man knew what his water rights were until they had been lawed over, and lawed over, and lawed over again.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1920, <cite>Weight and Measure</cite>, page 34:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">It has been truly said that we are lawed into existence and lawed through life and lawed out of it more than any other nation</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1994, Lisa Lewis, <cite>The Unbeliever</cite>, <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0299144046" title="Special:BookSources/0299144046">→ISBN</a>, page 58:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">She knows what's tethered underwater. Not Children's bodies, but their toys, their lost, Lawed-against pleasures</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="See_also">See also</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Legal_terms" class="mw-redirect" title="Appendix:Legal terms">Appendix:Legal terms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary_of_legal_terms" title="Appendix:Glossary of legal terms">Appendix:Glossary of legal terms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Law" title="Category:Law">Category:Law</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/lawe#English" title="lawe">lawe</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etymology_2">Etymology 2</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Etymology 2">edit</a>]</div> From <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_English" class="extiw" title="w:Middle English">Middle English</a> <a href="/wiki/lawe#Middle_English" title="lawe">lawe</a>, from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English" class="extiw" title="w:Old English">Old English</a> <a href="/wiki/hlaw#Old_English" title="hlaw">hlāw</a> (“burial mound”). Also spelled <a href="/wiki/low" title="low">low</a>. See also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language" class="extiw" title="w:Scots language">Scots</a> <a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#Scots">law</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Noun_2">Noun</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Noun">edit</a>]</div> law (plural <a href="/wiki/laws#English" title="laws">laws</a>) <ol><li>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#obsolete" title="Appendix:Glossary">obsolete</a>) A <a href="/wiki/tumulus" title="tumulus">tumulus</a> of <a href="/wiki/stone#Noun" title="stone">stones</a>.</li> <li>(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_language_in_Northern_England" class="extiw" title="w:English language in Northern England">Northern England</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scottish_English" class="extiw" title="w:Scottish English">Scotland</a>, <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#archaic" title="Appendix:Glossary">archaic</a>) A <a href="/wiki/hill" title="hill">hill</a>. <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">1892, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Louis_Stevenson" class="extiw" title="w:Robert Louis Stevenson">Robert Louis Stevenson</a>, “The Lantern-bearers”, in <cite><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Across_the_Plains_(book)" class="extiw" title="w:Across the Plains (book)">Across the Plains: With Other Memories and Essays</a></cite>, London: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chatto_%26_Windus" class="extiw" title="w:Chatto & Windus">Chatto & Windus</a>, […], <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/title/702351883">→OCLC</a>, part I, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/acrossplainswith00stevrich/page/209/mode/1up">page 209</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">[Y]ou might climb the Law, where the whale's jawbone stood landmark in the buzzing wind, and behold the face of many counties, and the smoke and spires of many towns, and the sails of distant ships.</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Derived_terms_2">Derived terms</h5>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Derived terms">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Largo_Law#English" title="Largo Law">Largo Law</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etymology_3">Etymology 3</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Etymology 3">edit</a>]</div> From <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_English" class="extiw" title="w:Middle English">Middle English</a> <a href="/wiki/lagh#Middle_English" title="lagh">lagh</a>, from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Norse" class="extiw" title="w:Old Norse">Old Norse</a> <a href="/wiki/lag#Old_Norse" title="lag">lag</a> (“that which is lying or laid, position, price, way, sting, blow”), from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Germanic_language" class="extiw" title="w:Proto-Germanic language">Proto-Germanic</a> <a href="/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/lag%C4%85" title="Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/lagą">*lagą</a> (“that which is laid”). Cognate with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_language" class="extiw" title="w:Scots language">Scots</a> <a href="/wiki/lauch#Scots" title="lauch">lauch</a> (“one's tavern-reckoning or one's share of the cost, a score; a payment for drink or entertainment”), <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_English" class="extiw" title="w:Middle English">Middle English</a> <a href="/wiki/lai#Middle_English" title="lai">lai</a> (“one's share of expenses, one's bill or account”). <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Noun_3">Noun</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Noun">edit</a>]</div> law (plural <a href="/wiki/laws#English" title="laws">laws</a>) <ol><li>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#dialectal" title="Appendix:Glossary">dialectal</a> or <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#obsolete" title="Appendix:Glossary">obsolete</a>) A <a href="/wiki/score" title="score">score</a>; <a href="/wiki/share" title="share">share</a> of <a href="/wiki/expense" title="expense">expense</a>; <a href="/wiki/legal" title="legal">legal</a> <a href="/wiki/charge" title="charge">charge</a>.</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Related_terms">Related terms</h5>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Related terms">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/lawing#English" title="lawing">lawing</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etymology_4">Etymology 4</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Etymology 4">edit</a>]</div> Compare <a href="/wiki/la#English" title="la">la</a> and <a href="/wiki/Lawd#English" title="Lawd">Lawd</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Interjection">Interjection</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Interjection">edit</a>]</div> law <ol><li>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#dated" title="Appendix:Glossary">dated</a>) An exclamation of mild surprise; <a href="/wiki/lawks" title="lawks">lawks</a>; in interjections, a minced oath for <a href="/wiki/Lord#English" title="Lord">Lord</a>. <ul><li>1791-92, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Austen" class="extiw" title="w:Jane Austen">Jane Austen</a>, ‘The Three Sisters’, Juvenilia: <dl><dd>‘Do tell me once for all, whether you intend to marry Mr Watts or not?’ ‘Law Mama, how can I tell you what I don't know myself?’</dd></dl></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">1870, Arthur William A'Beckett, <cite>The Tomahawk: A Saturday Journal of Satire</cite>, page 104:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">[…] and my boots were a leetle 'eavier than they are, law bless my soul! I'd do it myself.</div></dd></dl></div></li> <li><div class="citation-whole">2024 March 1, Arthur Sketchley, <cite>Mrs. Brown on the Skating Rink</cite>, BoD – Books on Demand, <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9783385362079" title="Special:BookSources/9783385362079">→ISBN</a>, page 127:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">Arthur Sketchley. But, law bless my 'art , it's werry orful to be a forriner, as I were a-thinkin', and never be able to make yourself understood, except in that gibberish,</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="Related_terms_2">Related terms</h5>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Related terms">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/laws#English" title="laws">laws</a> (“minced oath for 'Lord'”)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading5"><h5 id="References">References</h5>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">2021 October 21, Harold F. Farwell, J. Karl Nicholas, <cite>Smoky Mountain Voices: A Lexicon of Southern Appalachian Speech Based on the Research of Horace Kephart</cite>, University Press of Kentucky, <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/9780813183947" title="Special:BookSources/9780813183947">→ISBN</a>:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">Laws-a-mighty me! Law bless my heart! Laws-a-mercy! (J 2:607). "Laws-a-marcy, how it does hurt!" (B 303). "I'm a-waitin' fer Jim Johnson, and with the help of the Lawd I'm goin' to blow his damn head off" (B 347).</div></dd></dl></div></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="References_2">References</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>]</div> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ordnet.dk/ods/opslag?opslag=lov&submit=S%F8g">Etymology</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/da:ODS" class="extiw" title="w:da:ODS">ODS</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Anagrams">Anagrams</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Anagrams">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/AWL#English" title="AWL">AWL</a>, <a href="/wiki/WAL#English" title="WAL">WAL</a>, <a href="/wiki/WLA#English" title="WLA">WLA</a>, <a href="/wiki/Wal.#English" title="Wal.">Wal.</a>, <a href="/wiki/awl#English" title="awl">awl</a>, <a href="/wiki/lwa#English" title="lwa">lwa</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Fula">Fula</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Fula">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Adverb">Adverb</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Adverb">edit</a>]</div> law <ol><li><a href="/wiki/early" title="early">early</a></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="References_3">References</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>Oumar Bah, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://pular.webonary.org/">Dictionnaire Pular-Français, Avec un index français-pular</a>, Webonary.org, SIL International, 2014.</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Khumi_Chin">Khumi Chin</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Khumi Chin">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Bangkok_Supermoon_Photographs_by_Peak_Hora_10.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/The_Bangkok_Supermoon_Photographs_by_Peak_Hora_10.jpg/220px-The_Bangkok_Supermoon_Photographs_by_Peak_Hora_10.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/The_Bangkok_Supermoon_Photographs_by_Peak_Hora_10.jpg/330px-The_Bangkok_Supermoon_Photographs_by_Peak_Hora_10.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b2/The_Bangkok_Supermoon_Photographs_by_Peak_Hora_10.jpg/440px-The_Bangkok_Supermoon_Photographs_by_Peak_Hora_10.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4608" data-file-height="3456" /></a><figcaption>Law (1).</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etymology">Etymology</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Etymology">edit</a>]</div> From <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Kuki-Chin_language" class="extiw" title="w:Proto-Kuki-Chin language">Proto-Kuki-Chin</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=Reconstruction:Proto-Kuki-Chin/khlaa&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Reconstruction:Proto-Kuki-Chin/khlaa (page does not exist)">*khlaa</a>, from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Sino-Tibetan_language" class="extiw" title="w:Proto-Sino-Tibetan language">Proto-Sino-Tibetan</a> <a href="/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/s/%C9%A1-la" title="Reconstruction:Proto-Sino-Tibetan/s/ɡ-la">*g-la</a>. Cognates include <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lhasa_Tibetan" class="extiw" title="w:Lhasa Tibetan">Tibetan</a> <a href="/wiki/%E0%BD%9F%E0%BE%B3%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%96#Tibetan" title="ཟླ་བ">ཟླ་བ</a> (zla ba) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burmese_language" class="extiw" title="w:Burmese language">Burmese</a> <a href="/wiki/%E1%80%9C#Burmese" title="လ">လ</a> (la.). <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pronunciation_2">Pronunciation</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Pronunciation">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="Wiktionary:International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a>(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khumi_Chin_phonology" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Khumi Chin phonology">key</a>): /lɔ˧/</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Noun_4">Noun</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Noun">edit</a>]</div> law <ol><li><a href="/wiki/moon" title="moon">moon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/month" title="month">month</a></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="References_4">References</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>R. Shafer (1944) “Khimi Grammar and Vocabulary”, in <cite>Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London</cite>, volume 11, number 2, page 422</li> <li>K. E. Herr (2011) <cite>The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin</cite>‎<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://www.sil.org/system/files/reapdata/13/82/04/138204403307627865080807607561715394549/Phonological_Interpretation_of_Minor_Syllables.pdf">[1]</a>, Payap University, page 42</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Lower_Sorbian">Lower Sorbian</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Lower Sorbian">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Lions_Family_Portrait_Masai_Mara.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Lions_Family_Portrait_Masai_Mara.jpg/220px-Lions_Family_Portrait_Masai_Mara.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Lions_Family_Portrait_Masai_Mara.jpg/330px-Lions_Family_Portrait_Masai_Mara.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Lions_Family_Portrait_Masai_Mara.jpg/440px-Lions_Family_Portrait_Masai_Mara.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5184" data-file-height="3456" /></a><figcaption>lawy</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etymology_5">Etymology</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Etymology">edit</a>]</div> From <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Slavic_language" class="extiw" title="w:Proto-Slavic language">Proto-Slavic</a> <a href="/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/l%D1%8Cv%D1%8A" title="Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lьvъ">*lьvъ</a>, from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Indo-European_language" class="extiw" title="w:Proto-Indo-European language">Proto-Indo-European</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/lewo-&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/lewo- (page does not exist)">*lewo-</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pronunciation_3">Pronunciation</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Pronunciation">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="Wiktionary:International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a>(<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Lower_Sorbian_pronunciation" title="Appendix:Lower Sorbian pronunciation">key</a>): /law/</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Noun_5">Noun</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Noun">edit</a>]</div> law <abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr> <abbr title="animate">anim</abbr> (feminine <a href="/w/index.php?title=lawowka&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="lawowka (page does not exist)">lawowka</a>, diminutive <a href="/wiki/lawk#Lower_Sorbian" title="lawk">lawk</a>) <ol><li><a href="/wiki/lion" title="lion">lion</a> (<a href="/wiki/Panthera_leo#Translingual" title="Panthera leo">Panthera leo</a>)</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Declension">Declension</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Declension">edit</a>]</div> <div class="NavFrame"> <div class="NavHead" style="background:#eff7ff">Declension of law</div> <div class="NavContent"> <table border="1px solid" style="border-collapse:collapse; background:#F9F9F9; text-align:center; width:100%" class="inflection-table"> <tbody><tr> <th style="background:#d9ebff;width:13%"> </th> <th style="background:#d9ebff;width:29%">Singular </th> <th style="background:#d9ebff;width:29%">Dual </th> <th style="background:#d9ebff;width:29%">Plural </th></tr> <tr> <th style="background:#eff7ff">Nominative </th> <td>law </td> <td><a href="/wiki/lawa#Lower_Sorbian" title="lawa">lawa</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/lawy#Lower_Sorbian" title="lawy">lawy</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="background:#eff7ff">Genitive </th> <td><a href="/wiki/lawa#Lower_Sorbian" title="lawa">lawa</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=lawowu&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="lawowu (page does not exist)">lawowu</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=lawow&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="lawow (page does not exist)">lawow</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="background:#eff7ff">Dative </th> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=lawoju&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="lawoju (page does not exist)">lawoju</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=lawoma&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="lawoma (page does not exist)">lawoma</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=lawam&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="lawam (page does not exist)">lawam</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="background:#eff7ff">Accusative </th> <td><a href="/wiki/lawa#Lower_Sorbian" title="lawa">lawa</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=lawowu&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="lawowu (page does not exist)">lawowu</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/lawy#Lower_Sorbian" title="lawy">lawy</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=lawow&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="lawow (page does not exist)">lawow</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="background:#eff7ff">Instrumental </th> <td><a href="/wiki/lawom#Lower_Sorbian" title="lawom">lawom</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=lawoma&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="lawoma (page does not exist)">lawoma</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/lawami#Lower_Sorbian" title="lawami">lawami</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="background:#eff7ff">Locative </th> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=lawje&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="lawje (page does not exist)">lawje</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=lawoma&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="lawoma (page does not exist)">lawoma</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/lawach#Lower_Sorbian" title="lawach">lawach</a> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Derived_terms_3">Derived terms</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Derived terms">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=lawica&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="lawica (page does not exist)">lawica</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=lawik&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="lawik (page does not exist)">lawik</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/lawowy#Lower_Sorbian" title="lawowy">lawowy</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: Further reading">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arno%C5%A1t_Muka" class="extiw" title="w:Arnošt Muka">Muka, Arnošt</a> (1921, 1928) “<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://dolnoserbski.de/ndw/pokaz/Muka/law">law</a>”, in <cite>Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow</cite> (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ru:%D0%9E%D1%82%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BB%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D0%B5_%D1%80%D1%83%D1%81%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B3%D0%BE_%D1%8F%D0%B7%D1%8B%D0%BA%D0%B0_%D0%B8_%D1%81%D0%BB%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B5%D1%81%D0%BD%D0%BE%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B8" class="extiw" title="w:ru:Отделение русского языка и словесности">ОРЯС РАН</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/cs:%C4%8Cesk%C3%A1_akademie_v%C4%9Bd_a_um%C4%9Bn%C3%AD" class="extiw" title="w:cs:Česká akademie věd a umění">ČAVU</a>; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008</li> <li>Starosta, Manfred (1999) “<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.dolnoserbski.de/ndw/pokaz/Starosta/law">law</a>”, in <cite>Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch</cite> (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Middle_English">Middle English</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: Middle English">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Noun_6">Noun</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: Noun">edit</a>]</div> law <ol><li>Alternative form of <a href="/wiki/lawe#Middle_English" title="lawe">lawe</a></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Scots">Scots</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: Scots">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Noun_7">Noun</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: Noun">edit</a>]</div> law (plural <a href="/wiki/laws#Scots" title="laws">laws</a>) <ol><li><a class="mw-selflink-fragment" href="#English">law</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/rounded" title="rounded">rounded</a> <a href="/wiki/hill" title="hill">hill</a> (usually conical, frequently isolated or conspicuous)</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Adjective">Adjective</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: Adjective">edit</a>]</div> law (<a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#comparative" title="Appendix:Glossary">comparative</a> <a href="/wiki/lawer#Scots" title="lawer">lawer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#superlative" title="Appendix:Glossary">superlative</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=lawest&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="lawest (page does not exist)">lawest</a>) <ol><li><a href="/wiki/low#English" title="low">low</a></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sranan_Tongo">Sranan Tongo</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=41" title="Edit section: Sranan Tongo">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etymology_6">Etymology</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=42" title="Edit section: Etymology">edit</a>]</div> Probably from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kongo_language" class="extiw" title="w:Kongo language">Kongo</a> <a href="/wiki/kilawu#Kongo" title="kilawu">kilawu</a>, from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Bantu_language" class="extiw" title="w:Proto-Bantu language">Proto-Bantu</a> <a href="/w/index.php?title=Reconstruction:Proto-Bantu/dadU&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Reconstruction:Proto-Bantu/dadU (page does not exist)">*dadU</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pronunciation_4">Pronunciation</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=43" title="Edit section: Pronunciation">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="Wiktionary:International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a>(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sranan_Tongo_phonology" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Sranan Tongo phonology">key</a>): /lau̯/</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Verb_2">Verb</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=44" title="Edit section: Verb">edit</a>]</div> law <ol><li>To be <a href="/wiki/crazy" title="crazy">crazy</a> <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">ca. 1765, Pieter van Dyk, <cite>Nieuwe en nooit bevoorens geziene Onderwyzinge in het Bastert, of Neeger Engels, zoo als het zelve in de Hollandsze Colonien gebruikt word</cite> [<cite>New and unprecedented instruction in Bastard or Negro English, as it is used in the Dutch colonies</cite>]‎<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://apics-online.info/sentences/1-32">[2]</a>, Frankfurt/Madrid: Iberoamericana, page 22:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">Joe lau te moesi<dl><dd>[Yu law tumsi]</dd><dd>You are too crazy</dd></dl></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li> <li>To drive somebody <a href="/wiki/crazy" title="crazy">crazy</a> <ul><li><div class="citation-whole">2005, <cite>Nyun-Grontapuvertaling fu den Kresten Griki Buku fu Bijbel</cite> [<cite>New World Translation of the Christian Greek Scriptures</cite>]‎<a rel="nofollow" class="external autonumber" href="https://wol.jw.org/srn/wol/b/r50/lp-sr/bi12/44/26#s=24&study=discover&v=44:26:26">[3]</a>, Brooklyn, NY: Watch Tower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania, Acts of the Apostles, chapter 26, verse 24:<dl><dd><div class="h-quotation">Di Paulus kaba taki gi ensrefi, Festus taki nanga wan tranga sten: „Yu e kon law, Paulus! Den kefalek sani di yu leri e law yu!”<dl><dd>When Paul was done speaking up for himself, Festus said with a loud voice: “You lost your mind, Paul! The great things you learnt are driving you insane!”</dd></dl></div></dd></dl></div></li></ul></li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Derived_terms_4">Derived terms</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=45" title="Edit section: Derived terms">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/lawman#Sranan_Tongo" title="lawman">lawman</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Upper_Sorbian">Upper Sorbian</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=46" title="Edit section: Upper Sorbian">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Etymology_7">Etymology</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=47" title="Edit section: Etymology">edit</a>]</div> <a href="/wiki/Appendix:Glossary#inherited" title="Appendix:Glossary">Inherited</a> from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proto-Slavic_language" class="extiw" title="w:Proto-Slavic language">Proto-Slavic</a> <a href="/wiki/Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/l%D1%8Cv%D1%8A" title="Reconstruction:Proto-Slavic/lьvъ">*lь̀vъ</a>. <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Pronunciation_5">Pronunciation</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=48" title="Edit section: Pronunciation">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wiktionary:International_Phonetic_Alphabet" title="Wiktionary:International Phonetic Alphabet">IPA</a>(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Sorbian_phonology" class="extiw" title="wikipedia:Upper Sorbian phonology">key</a>): /ˈlaw/</li> <li>Rhymes: <a href="/w/index.php?title=Rhymes:Upper_Sorbian/aw&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Rhymes:Upper Sorbian/aw (page does not exist)">-aw</a></li> <li>Hyphenation: law</li> <li>Syllabification: law</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Noun_8">Noun</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=49" title="Edit section: Noun">edit</a>]</div> law <abbr title="masculine gender">m</abbr> <abbr title="animal">animal</abbr> <ol><li>(<a href="/wiki/zoology" title="zoology">zoology</a>) <a href="/wiki/lion" title="lion">lion</a> (<a href="/wiki/Panthera_leo#Translingual" title="Panthera leo">Panthera leo</a>)</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Declension_2">Declension</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=50" title="Edit section: Declension">edit</a>]</div> <div> <div class="NavFrame" style="max-width: 45em"> <div class="NavHead" style="background:#eff7ff">Declension of law (masculine hard stem)</div> <div class="NavContent"> <table style="background:#F9F9F9;text-align:center;width:100%;display:table" class="inflection-table"> <tbody><tr> <th style="width:33%;background:#d9ebff"> </th> <th style="background:#d9ebff">singular </th> <th style="background:#d9ebff">dual </th> <th style="background:#d9ebff">plural </th></tr> <tr> <th style="background:#eff7ff">nominative </th> <td>law </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=lawaj&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="lawaj (page does not exist)">lawaj</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/lawy#Upper_Sorbian" title="lawy">lawy</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="background:#eff7ff">genitive </th> <td><a href="/wiki/lawa#Upper_Sorbian" title="lawa">lawa</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=lawow&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="lawow (page does not exist)">lawow</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=lawow&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="lawow (page does not exist)">lawow</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="background:#eff7ff">dative </th> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=lawej&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="lawej (page does not exist)">lawej</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=lawomaj&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="lawomaj (page does not exist)">lawomaj</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=lawam&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="lawam (page does not exist)">lawam</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="background:#eff7ff">accusative </th> <td><a href="/wiki/lawa#Upper_Sorbian" title="lawa">lawa</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=lawaj&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="lawaj (page does not exist)">lawaj</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/lawy#Upper_Sorbian" title="lawy">lawy</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="background:#eff7ff">instrumental </th> <td><a href="/wiki/lawom#Upper_Sorbian" title="lawom">lawom</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=lawomaj&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="lawomaj (page does not exist)">lawomaj</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/lawami#Upper_Sorbian" title="lawami">lawami</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="background:#eff7ff">locative </th> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=lawje&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="lawje (page does not exist)">lawje</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=lawomaj&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="lawomaj (page does not exist)">lawomaj</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/lawach#Upper_Sorbian" title="lawach">lawach</a> </td></tr> <tr> <th style="background:#eff7ff">vocative </th> <td><a href="/wiki/lawo#Upper_Sorbian" title="lawo">lawo</a>, <a href="/w/index.php?title=lawje&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="lawje (page does not exist)">lawje</a> </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=lawaj&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="lawaj (page does not exist)">lawaj</a> </td> <td><a href="/wiki/lawy#Upper_Sorbian" title="lawy">lawy</a> </td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="References_5">References</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=51" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>“<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://soblexx.de/?cmd=search_soblex&p_w=law">law</a>” in Soblex</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Welsh">Welsh</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=52" title="Edit section: Welsh">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Noun_9">Noun</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=53" title="Edit section: Noun">edit</a>]</div> law <ol><li>Soft mutation of <a href="/wiki/glaw#Welsh" title="glaw">glaw</a> (“<a href="/wiki/rain" title="rain">rain</a>”).</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Mutation">Mutation</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=54" title="Edit section: Mutation">edit</a>]</div> <div class="inflection-table-wrapper inflection-table-narrow inflection-table-green" style="width: fit-content" data-toggle-category="inflection"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r82739966">.mw-parser-output .inflection-table-wrapper{padding:3px;margin:0.5em 0;background:var(--wikt-palette-paleblue);border:1px solid var(--wikt-palette-grey)}.mw-parser-output .inflection-table-wrapper.inflection-table-narrow{}.mw-parser-output .inflection-table-wrapper.inflection-table-no-title{border:0;padding:0}@media all and 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All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience. </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Noun_10">Noun</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=55" title="Edit section: Noun">edit</a>]</div> law <ol><li>Soft mutation of <a href="/wiki/llaw#Welsh" title="llaw">llaw</a> (“<a href="/wiki/hand" title="hand">hand</a>”).</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Mutation_2">Mutation</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=law&action=edit&section=56" title="Edit section: Mutation">edit</a>]</div> <div class="inflection-table-wrapper inflection-table-narrow inflection-table-green" style="width: fit-content" data-toggle-category="inflection"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r82739966"> <table class="inflection-table"> <caption class="inflection-table-title"><a href="/wiki/Appendix:Welsh_mutations" title="Appendix:Welsh mutations">Mutated forms</a> of llaw </caption> <tbody><tr> <th><a href="/wiki/radical" title="radical">radical</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/soft_mutation" title="soft mutation">soft</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/nasal_mutation" title="nasal mutation">nasal</a> </th> <th><a href="/wiki/aspirate_mutation" title="aspirate mutation">aspirate</a> </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/llaw#Welsh" title="llaw">llaw</a> </td> <td>law </td> <td>unchanged </td> <td>unchanged </td></tr></tbody></table> Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. 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class="interlanguage-link-target">Ελληνικά</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wiktionary.org/wiki/law" title="law – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="law" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wiktionary.org/wiki/law" title="law – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="law" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target">Esperanto</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wiktionary.org/wiki/law" title="law – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="law" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target">Euskara</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wiktionary.org/wiki/law" title="law – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="law" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/law" title="law – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="law" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wiktionary.org/wiki/law" title="law – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="law" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target">Galego</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wiktionary.org/wiki/law" title="law – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="law" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wiktionary.org/wiki/law" title="law – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="law" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Հայերեն</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wiktionary.org/wiki/law" title="law – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="law" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hrvatski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-io mw-list-item"><a href="https://io.wiktionary.org/wiki/law" title="law – Ido" lang="io" hreflang="io" data-title="law" data-language-autonym="Ido" data-language-local-name="Ido" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ido</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ie mw-list-item"><a href="https://ie.wiktionary.org/wiki/law" title="law – Interlingue" lang="ie" hreflang="ie" data-title="law" data-language-autonym="Interlingue" data-language-local-name="Interlingue" class="interlanguage-link-target">Interlingue</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wiktionary.org/wiki/law" title="law – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="law" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Íslenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wiktionary.org/wiki/law" title="law – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="law" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wiktionary.org/wiki/law" title="law – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="law" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target">ಕನ್ನಡ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kk mw-list-item"><a href="https://kk.wiktionary.org/wiki/law" title="law – Kazakh" lang="kk" hreflang="kk" data-title="law" data-language-autonym="Қазақша" data-language-local-name="Kazakh" class="interlanguage-link-target">Қазақша</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wiktionary.org/wiki/law" title="law – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="law" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kiswahili</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ku mw-list-item"><a href="https://ku.wiktionary.org/wiki/law" title="law – Kurdish" lang="ku" hreflang="ku" data-title="law" data-language-autonym="Kurdî" data-language-local-name="Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Kurdî</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lo.wiktionary.org/wiki/law" title="law – Lao" lang="lo" hreflang="lo" data-title="law" data-language-autonym="ລາວ" data-language-local-name="Lao" class="interlanguage-link-target">ລາວ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wiktionary.org/wiki/law" title="law – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="law" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wiktionary.org/wiki/law" title="law – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="law" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latviešu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wiktionary.org/wiki/law" title="law – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="law" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lietuvių</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-li mw-list-item"><a href="https://li.wiktionary.org/wiki/law" title="law – Limburgish" lang="li" hreflang="li" data-title="law" data-language-autonym="Limburgs" data-language-local-name="Limburgish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Limburgs</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lmo mw-list-item"><a href="https://lmo.wiktionary.org/wiki/law" title="law – Lombard" lang="lmo" hreflang="lmo" data-title="law" data-language-autonym="Lombard" data-language-local-name="Lombard" class="interlanguage-link-target">Lombard</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wiktionary.org/wiki/law" title="law – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="law" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Magyar</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mg mw-list-item"><a href="https://mg.wiktionary.org/wiki/law" title="law – Malagasy" lang="mg" hreflang="mg" data-title="law" data-language-autonym="Malagasy" data-language-local-name="Malagasy" class="interlanguage-link-target">Malagasy</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wiktionary.org/wiki/law" title="law – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="law" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target">മലയാളം</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wiktionary.org/wiki/law" title="law – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="law" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target">မြန်မာဘာသာ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wiktionary.org/wiki/law" title="law – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="law" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target">Nederlands</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wiktionary.org/wiki/law" title="law – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="law" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target">日本語</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wiktionary.org/wiki/law" title="law – Norwegian" lang="no" hreflang="no" data-title="law" data-language-autonym="Norsk" data-language-local-name="Norwegian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Norsk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-om mw-list-item"><a href="https://om.wiktionary.org/wiki/law" title="law – Oromo" lang="om" hreflang="om" data-title="law" data-language-autonym="Oromoo" data-language-local-name="Oromo" class="interlanguage-link-target">Oromoo</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-km mw-list-item"><a href="https://km.wiktionary.org/wiki/law" title="law – Khmer" lang="km" hreflang="km" data-title="law" data-language-autonym="ភាសាខ្មែរ" data-language-local-name="Khmer" class="interlanguage-link-target">ភាសាខ្មែរ</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wiktionary.org/wiki/law" title="law – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="law" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Polski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wiktionary.org/wiki/law" title="law – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="law" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target">Português</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wiktionary.org/wiki/law" title="law – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="law" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Русский</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sm mw-list-item"><a href="https://sm.wiktionary.org/wiki/law" title="law – Samoan" lang="sm" hreflang="sm" data-title="law" data-language-autonym="Gagana Samoa" data-language-local-name="Samoan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Gagana Samoa</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sg mw-list-item"><a href="https://sg.wiktionary.org/wiki/law" title="law – Sango" lang="sg" hreflang="sg" data-title="law" data-language-autonym="Sängö" data-language-local-name="Sango" class="interlanguage-link-target">Sängö</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wiktionary.org/wiki/law" title="law – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="law" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target">Simple English</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wiktionary.org/wiki/law" title="law – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="law" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target">Slovenčina</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wiktionary.org/wiki/law" title="law – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="law" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Српски / srpski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wiktionary.org/wiki/law" title="law – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="law" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Suomi</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wiktionary.org/wiki/law" title="law – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="law" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Svenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wiktionary.org/wiki/law" title="law – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="law" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target">தமிழ்</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-te mw-list-item"><a href="https://te.wiktionary.org/wiki/law" title="law – Telugu" lang="te" hreflang="te" data-title="law" data-language-autonym="తెలుగు" data-language-local-name="Telugu" class="interlanguage-link-target">తెలుగు</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wiktionary.org/wiki/law" title="law – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="law" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target">ไทย</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a href="https://tr.wiktionary.org/wiki/law" title="law – Turkish" lang="tr" hreflang="tr" data-title="law" data-language-autonym="Türkçe" data-language-local-name="Turkish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Türkçe</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uk mw-list-item"><a href="https://uk.wiktionary.org/wiki/law" title="law – Ukrainian" lang="uk" hreflang="uk" data-title="law" data-language-autonym="Українська" data-language-local-name="Ukrainian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Українська</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ur mw-list-item"><a href="https://ur.wiktionary.org/wiki/law" title="law – Urdu" lang="ur" hreflang="ur" data-title="law" data-language-autonym="اردو" data-language-local-name="Urdu" class="interlanguage-link-target">اردو</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-vi mw-list-item"><a href="https://vi.wiktionary.org/wiki/law" title="law – Vietnamese" lang="vi" hreflang="vi" 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