law, legal act, bill, statute · any formally published legal norm, a regulation affecting anyone in an unlimited number of cases · a principle governing the phenomena in a particular field of science, a law of nature
çekim: çoğul Gesetze · tamlayan Gesetzes
köken: From Middle High German gesetze, gesetzede, from Old High German gisezzida (“fixing, determination, assessment”), from sezzen (“to make sit, set, put”), from Proto-West Germanic *sattjan (“to set, put down”).
law (the body of rules established in a community by its authorities) · a law (a binding regulation or custom established in a community in this way) · a law (more generally)
çekim: çoğul lagar · tamlayan lags
köken: From Old Swedish lagh, from Old Norse lǫg. Cognate with Danish lov, Norwegian lov, English law. Related to Old Norse leggja “to define”.
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti Proto-Italic *agō Latin agō Latin āctuslbor. ▲ German Aktsl. Polish akt Learned borrowing from Latin āctus. Etymology 1 sense 5 is a semantic loan from German Akt. First attested in 1529.
law (a binding regulation or custom established in a community) · law (a rule, principle, or statement of relation) · act, statute (written law, as laid down by the legislature)
çekim: çoğul törvények
köken: Unknown origin. The -vény ending seems to be a noun-forming suffix, however, it cannot be proven due to the unclear etymon. Despite noticeable similarities to Turkish töre (“custom, law”), the Hungarian word's derivation from Old Turkic is less likely for morphological reasons.