The law

[Eduard Selleslagh]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony Appleyard" <mclssaa2 at fs2.mt.umist.ac.uk>
Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 12:37 PM

> Did the speakers of common IE have any notion of "the law" as an institution?
> What was the IE word for "law", either as "the rules to be obeyed" (Latin
> {lex}), or as "the process of justice" (Latin {jus})? Each IE language that I
> know of seems to have a different word.

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[Ed]
You could add:

Dutch {wet} : could that be related to 'veda'? (The Dutch verb 'weten' means
'to know')

German {Gesetz} : 'what has been set'

Ed. Selleslagh