different between law vs hund

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: lô, IPA^(key): /l??/
  • Rhymes: -??
• (US) enPR: lô, IPA^(key): /l?/
• (cot–caught merger) enPR: lä, IPA^(key): /l?/
• Homophone: la (in accents with the cot-caught merger)
• Homophone: lore (in non-rhotic accents with the horse-hoarse merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English lawe, la?e, from Old English lagu (“law”), from Old Norse l?g (“law”, literally “things laid down or fixed”), originally the plural of lag (“layer, stratum, a laying in order, measure, stroke”), from Proto-Germanic *lag? (“that which is laid down”), from Proto-Indo-European *leg?- (“to lie”). Cognate with Icelandic lög (“things laid down, law”), Swedish lag (“law”), Danish lov (“law”). Replaced Old English ? and ?esetnes. More at lay. Unrelated to French loi nor Spanish ley, since they both derive from *le?- (“to gather”).

Noun

law (countable and uncountable, plural laws)

1. The body of binding rules and regulations, customs, and standards established in a community by its legislative and judicial authorities.
   1. The body of such rules that pertain to a particular topic.

   2. Common law, as contrasted with equity.
2. A binding regulation or custom established in a community in this way.
3. (more generally) A rule, such as:
   1. Any rule that must or should be obeyed, concerning behaviours and their consequences. (Compare mores.)

   2. A rule or principle regarding the construction of language or art.
   3. A statement (in physics, etc) of an (observed, established) order or sequence or relationship of phenomena which is invariable under certain conditions. (Compare theory.)
      • 1992 March 2, Richard Preston, The New Yorker, "The Mountains of Pi":

        Observing pi 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.

   4. (mathematics, logic) A statement (of relation) that is true under specified conditions; a mathematical or logical rule.

   5. Any statement of the relation of acts and conditions to their consequences.

   6. (cricket) One of the official rules of cricket as codified by the its (former) governing body, the MCC.
4. The control and order brought about by the observance of such rules.

5. (informal) A person or group that act(s) with authority to uphold such rules and order (for example, one or more police officers).

6. The profession that deals with such rules (as lawyers, judges, police officers, etc).

7. Jurisprudence, the field of knowledge which encompasses these rules.

8. Litigation, legal action (as a means of maintaining or restoring order, redressing wrongs, etc).

9. (now uncommon) An allowance of distance or time (a head start) given to a weaker (human or animal) competitor in a race, to make the race more fair.
10. (fantasy) One of two metaphysical forces ruling the world in some fantasy settings, also called order, and opposed to chaos.
11. (law, chiefly historical) An oath sworn before a court, especially disclaiming a debt. (Chiefly in the phrases "wager of law", "wage one's law", "perform one's law", "lose one's law".)

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

law (third-person singular simple present laws, present participle lawing, simple past and past participle lawed)

1. (obsolete) To work as a lawyer; to practice law.
2. (transitive, intransitive, chiefly dialectal) To prosecute or sue (someone), to litigate.
   • 1860, George Eliot (Mary Anne Lewes), The Mill on the Floss:

     Your husband's [...] so given to lawing, they say. I doubt he'll leave you poorly off when he dies.
3. (nonstandard) To rule over (with a certain effect) by law; govern.
4. (informal) To enforce the law.
5. To subject to legal restrictions.

See also

• Appendix:Legal terms
• Appendix:Glossary of legal terms
• Category:Law
• lawe

Etymology 2

From Middle English lawe, from Old English hl?w (“burial mound”). Also spelled low.

Noun

law (plural laws)

1. (obsolete) A tumulus of stones.
2. (Scotland and Northern England, archaic) A hill.

Etymology 3

Compare la.

Interjection

law

1. (dated) An exclamation of mild surprise; lawks.

References

Etymology in ODS

Anagrams

• AWL, WAL, WLA, Wal., awl, lwa

Khumi Chin

Etymology

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *khlaa, from Proto-Sino-Tibetan *g-la. Cognates include Tibetan ???? (zla ba) and Burmese ? (la.).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l??/

Noun

law

1. moon
2. month

References

• R. Shafer (1944) , “Khimi Grammar and Vocabulary”, in Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, volume 11, issue 2, page 422
• K. E. Herr (2011) The phonological interpretation of minor syllables, applied to Lemi Chin?^[1], Payap University, page 42

Lower Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *l?v?, from Proto-Indo-European *lewo-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /law/

Noun

law m (diminutive lawk, feminine equivalent lawowka)

1. lion (Panthera leo)

Declension

Derived terms

• lawica
• lawik
• lawowy

Further reading

• law in Ernst Muka/Mucke (St. Petersburg and Prague 1911–28): S?ownik dolnoserbskeje r?cy a jeje nar?cow / Wörterbuch der nieder-wendischen Sprache und ihrer Dialekte. Reprinted 2008, Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag
• law in Manfred Starosta (1999): Dolnoserbsko-nimski s?ownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch. Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag.

Middle English

Noun

law

1. Alternative form of lawe

Scots

Noun

law (plural laws)

1. law
2. rounded hill (usually conical, frequently isolated or conspicuous)

Sranan Tongo

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lau?/

Verb

law

1. To be crazy
2. To drive somebody crazy

Upper Sorbian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *l?v?, from Proto-Indo-European *lewo-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lau?/

Noun

law m

1. lion (Panthera leo)

Declension

Derived terms

• lawica, lawjace/-a/-y, lawowe/-a/-y

Welsh

Noun

law

1. Soft mutation of glaw (“rain”).

Mutation

Noun

law

1. Soft mutation of llaw (“hand”).

Mutation

Alemannic German

Alternative forms

• hun, hunn, hònn (Walser)
• Hund

Etymology

From Middle High German hunt, from Old High German hunt. Cognate with German Hund, Dutch hond, English hound, Icelandic hundur.

Noun

hund m

1. (Carcoforo, Rimella and Campello Monti) dog

References

• “hund” in Patuzzi, Umberto, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar [Our Words], Luserna, Italy: Comitato unitario delle isole linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

Danish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [hun?]
• Rhymes: -un?

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hundr, from Proto-Germanic *hundaz, from Proto-Indo-European *?wn?tós, from *?w? (“dog”).

Noun

hund c (singular definite hunden, plural indefinite hunde)

1. dog
2. hound

Inflection

Etymology 2

Clipping of hundredkroneseddel (“hundred-kroner note”).

Noun

hund c (singular definite hunden, not used in plural form)

1. (informal) hundred (a hundred kroner bill)

Further reading

• hund on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da
• Hund (flertydig) on the Danish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^da

References

• “hund” in Den Danske Ordbog

Gothic

Romanization

hund

1. Romanization of ????????????????

Icelandic

Noun

hund

1. indefinite accusative singular of hundur

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old English hund (“hundred”), from Proto-Germanic *hund?.

Alternative forms

• hun

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hund/

Numeral

hund

2. (Early ME) one hundred

Usage notes

Much like modern English hundred, hund needs a determiner preceding it to function as a number.

Related terms

• hunfold

References

• “hund, card. num.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-11.

Etymology 2

Noun

hund

1. Alternative form of hound

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse hundr, from Proto-Germanic *hundaz, from Proto-Indo-European *?wn?tós, from *?w? (“dog”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?n/
• Homophones: hun, hunn
• Rhymes: -?n

Noun

hund m (definite singular hunden, indefinite plural hunder, definite plural hundene)

1. dog; hound

Derived terms

• førerhund
• hundeeier
• hundeskål
• hundespann

References

• “hund” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse hundr, from Proto-Germanic *hundaz, from Proto-Indo-European *?wn?tós, from *?w? (“dog”). Akin to English hound.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?nd/, /h?n?/, /h?nd/, /h?n?/

Noun

hund m (definite singular hunden, indefinite plural hundar, definite plural hundane)

1. a dog

Derived terms

References

• “hund” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /xund/, [hund]

Etymology 1

From Proto-West Germanic *hund.

Germanic cognates include Old Frisian hund, Old Saxon hund, Old Dutch hunt, Old High German hunt, Old Norse hundr, Gothic ???????????????????? (hunds).

Indo-European cognates include Latin canis, Ancient Greek ???? (kú?n), Sanskrit ????? (?van), Old Irish cú, Lithuanian šuõ.

Noun

hund m (nominative plural hundas)

1. dog

Declension

Derived terms

• hunden
• hundl??

Descendants

• Middle English: hound, hund, honde
  • English: hound
  • Scots: hoond

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *hund?, from Proto-Indo-European *?m?tóm. Cognates include Old High German hunt and Gothic ???????????????? (hund), also Latin centum.

Noun

hund n

1. hundred

Declension

Derived terms

• hundfeald

Descendants

• Middle English: hund

Old Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *hund

Noun

hund m

1. dog

Inflection

Descendants

• North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum: hünj

  Helgoland: Hin

  Mooring: hün

• Saterland Frisian: Huund
• West Frisian: hûn

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *hund.

Noun

hund m

1. a dog

Declension

Descendants

• Middle Low German: hund
  • Low German:
    • German Low German:

      Hamburgisch: Hond

    • Westphalian:

      Sauerländisch: Hund

      Westmünsterländisch: Hund

  • Plautdietsch: Hunt
    • ? Estonian: hunt

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish hunder, from Old Norse hundr, from Proto-Germanic *hundaz, from Proto-Indo-European *?wn?tós, a variant of *?w? (“dog”). Masculine in Late Modern Swedish. Akin to Gothic ???????????????????? (hunds), English hound.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /h?nd/

Noun

hund c

1. a dog; a hound

Declension

Synonyms

• vofsing
• vovve

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Finnish: hunttu

References

• hund in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

Vilamovian

Etymology

From Middle High German and Old High German hunt

Pronunciation

Noun

hund m (plural hund)

1. dog