Etymology

Perhaps from law because the practice was ordained by law. Few dictionaries comment directly on the etymology of the sense, but several (which also spell the infinitive law) group it with the other verb and noun senses derived from Old English lagu (“law”).^[1][2]

Verb

lawe (third-person singular simple present lawes, present participle lawing, simple past and past participle lawed)Category:English lemmas#LAWECategory:English verbs#LAWECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#LAWECategory:Pages with entries#LAWECategory:Pages with 5 entries#LAWE

1. (transitiveCategory:English transitive verbs#LAWE) To cut off the claws and balls of (e.g. a dog's forefeet, to hinder it from hunting).
   • 1808, William Gilpin, Remarks on forest scenery, and other woodland views:

     They were enveloped in forms, and easily evaded ; like a lawed dog, too mutilated to catch their game.

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   • 1866, George Richard Jesse, Researches Into the History of the British Dog:

     In the 3 Edw II., at a Court-Leet and Court-Baron held for the manor of Sutton-Cold field, in Warwickshire, when the ancient customs of the Lordship from the time of Athelstan and until the coronation of Henry III. were testified to by the Jury, they certified that they had heard their ancestors say that, when Sutton manor was in the hands of the Kings of England, all the Chase was afforested, and all the dogs within the forest used to be lawed, and the left claw of the foot cut off: and after it came into the hands of the Earl of Warwick they had leave to have and hold dogs of all kind unlawed.

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   • 1950, Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire:

     The Vicar of Bacford for the same John Miller there for the same Beatrice de Coghull for one dog not lawed.

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   • 2011, Edward Rutherfurd, Sarum, →ISBN, page 511:

     Godric rarely entered the forest, and, having already trained Harold to help with driving the sheep, at which the young dog had shown a remarkable talent, he had no wish to have him lawed.

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   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:lawe.

Noun

lawe (countable and uncountable, plural lawes)Category:English lemmas#LAWECategory:English nouns#LAWECategory:English uncountable nouns#LAWECategory:English countable nouns#LAWECategory:English countable nouns#LAWECategory:English entries with incorrect language header#LAWECategory:Pages with entries#LAWECategory:Pages with 5 entries#LAWE

1. Obsolete spelling of law (“system of regulations etc.”)Category:English obsolete forms#LAWE.

References

Further reading

• “lawe”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• alew, e-law, wale, weal

Etymology

From Proto-PolynesianCategory:Hawaiian terms inherited from Proto-Polynesian#LAWECategory:Hawaiian terms derived from Proto-Polynesian#LAWE *lawe (“take, lay hold of”), from Proto-OceanicCategory:Hawaiian terms inherited from Proto-Oceanic#LAWECategory:Hawaiian terms derived from Proto-Oceanic#LAWE *lawe (“take hold of”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈla.we/, [ˈlɐ.ʋe]Category:Hawaiian terms with IPA pronunciation#LAWE

Noun

laweCategory:Hawaiian lemmas#LAWECategory:Hawaiian nouns#LAWECategory:Hawaiian entries with incorrect language header#LAWECategory:Pages with entries#LAWECategory:Pages with 5 entries#LAWE

1. bearer

Verb

laweCategory:Hawaiian lemmas#LAWECategory:Hawaiian verbs#LAWECategory:Hawaiian entries with incorrect language header#LAWECategory:Pages with entries#LAWECategory:Pages with 5 entries#LAWE

1. (transitiveCategory:Hawaiian transitive verbs#LAWE) to transport, carry, take, bring

   lawe mai – to bring

   lawe aku – to take away

2. (transitiveCategory:Hawaiian transitive verbs#LAWE, figurative) to undertake, to accept
3. (stativeCategory:Hawaiian stative verbs#LAWE) portable
4. (stativeCategory:Hawaiian stative verbs#LAWE) to become

Further reading

• lawe in Combined Hawaiian Dictionary, at trussel2.com.

Romanization

laweCategory:Javanese non-lemma forms#LAWECategory:Javanese romanizations#LAWECategory:Javanese terms with redundant script codes#LAWECategory:Javanese entries with incorrect language header#LAWECategory:Pages with entries#LAWECategory:Pages with 5 entries#LAWE

1. alternative spelling of lawé, romanization of ꦭꦮꦺ

Etymology 1

From Old EnglishCategory:Middle English terms inherited from Old English#LAWECategory:Middle English terms derived from Old English#LAWE lagu, from Old NorseCategory:Middle English terms derived from Old Norse#LAWE *lagu, an earlier form of lǫg, the plural of lag (“layer”).

Etymology 2

Alternative forms

• lewe (Föhr-Amrum)
• lewwe (Heligoland)
• laawe (Mooring)
• lewi (Sylt)
• lääwe (Wiedingharde)

Etymology

From Old FrisianCategory:North Frisian terms inherited from Old Frisian#LAWECategory:North Frisian terms derived from Old Frisian#LAWE leva, from Proto-West GermanicCategory:North Frisian terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic#LAWECategory:North Frisian terms derived from Proto-West Germanic#LAWE *libbjan, from Proto-GermanicCategory:North Frisian terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#LAWECategory:North Frisian terms derived from Proto-Germanic#LAWE *libjaną (“to live”), from Proto-Indo-EuropeanCategory:North Frisian terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European#LAWECategory:North Frisian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#LAWE *leyp- (“to stick”).

Verb

laweCategory:North Frisian lemmas#LAWECategory:North Frisian verbs#LAWECategory:North Frisian entries with incorrect language header#LAWECategory:Pages with entries#LAWECategory:Pages with 5 entries#LAWE

1. (Goesharde) to live