The law

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>mclssaa2 at fs2.mt.umist.ac.uk writes:

>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})? >>

-- two words; *dhe-ti, 'that which is established, law'; reflexes in Latin,
Germanic, Greek, Sanskrit; derivation from *dheh, 'set, place'.

And *ieuos, 'law, ritual', reflexes in Celtic, Latin ('ius'), Slavic and
Indo-Iranian.