Website of the Week (WoW) #97: WOLD

Website of the Week (WoW) #97: WOLD

Where did the English word ‘law’ come from? Why the Old Norse ‘lagu’, of course. You can find out about loanwords in English and 40 other languages in the World Loanwords Database.


WOLD – World Loanword Database
wold.livingsources.org
The World Loanword Database, edited by Martin Haspelmath and Uri Tadmor, is a scientific publication by the Max Planck Digital Library, Munich (2009).

Website of the Week (WoW) #97: WOLD

Where did the English word ‘law’ come from? Why the Old Norse ‘lagu’, of course. You can find out about loanwords in English and 40 other languages in the World Loanwords Database.


WOLD – World Loanword Database
wold.livingsources.org
The World Loanword Database, edited by Martin Haspelmath and Uri Tadmor, is a scientific publication by the Max Planck Digital Library, Munich (2009).