# lǫg
## Old Norse
### Etymology 1

From lag n, from Proto-Germanic *lagą. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *legʰ- (“to lie (in a resting position)”).

#### Noun

lǫg n pl
* (uncountable, plural only) fate
** verse 20 of Vǫluspá
    þær lǫg lǫgðu, þær líf kuru / alda bǫrnum ørlǫg segjaLaws they made there, and life allotted / to the sons of men, and set their fates.
* (uncountable, plural only) situation, the condition that one is given by default
* (plural only) law, laws
* (plural only) participation or fellowship in law
lǫg f (genitive lagar)
* (countable) a law, the law

##### Derived terms

* Danalǫg n pl (“laws of the Danes or the lands thereunder; Danelaw”)
* lagabeizla f (“lawful demand”)
* lagaboð n (“statute”)
* lagabrot n (“breach of law”)
* lagabók f (“law-book”)
* lagaeiðr m (“lawful oath”)
* lagafrétt f (“legal inquiry”)
* lagagrein f (“article of law”)
* lagagæzla f (“maintenance of the law”)
* lagahald n (“keeping of the law”)
* lagahellur f pl (“the tables of the law”)
* lagakaup n (“legal bargain”)
* lagakvánfang n (“legal marriage”)
* lagalýritr m (“lawful protest”)
* lagalýritti n (“lawful protest”)
* lagalǫstr m (“evation of law”)
* lagamaðr m (“man of the law; lawyer”)
* lagapróf n (“legal proof”)
* lagarétting f (“law-mending”)
* lagaréttr m (“legal, personal right”)
* lagasetning f (“legislation”)
* lagaskilnaðr m (“legal divorce”)
* lagaskipan f (“legislation; ordering of the law”)
* lagaskipti n (“change of law”)
* lagavegr m (“lawful course”)
* lagaórskurðr m (“legal decision”)
* law-breaker m
* lǫgarfi m (“lawful heir”)
* lǫgbeiðing f (“legal demand”)
* Lǫgberg n (“the law-rock”)
* Lǫgbergi n (“the law-rock”)
* Lǫgbergsganga f (“the procession to the law-rock”)
* lǫgbinda (“to bind, stipulate by law”)
* lǫgbjóða (“to order, prescribe by law”)
* lǫgboð n (“lawful call, demand”)
* lǫgbrot n (“breach of law”)
* lǫgbrotsmaðr m (“law breaker”)
* lǫgbók f (“code of laws”)
* lǫgbú n (“lawful household”)
* lǫgdeila f (“litigation”)
* lǫgdómr m (“lawful court; legal sentence”)
* lǫgeggjan f (“lawful provocation”)
* lǫgeindagi m (“legal term”)
* lǫgeiðr m (“lawful oath”)
* lǫgeyrir m (“legal money, payment”)
* lǫgfardagr m (“a legal time for moving one's household”)
* lǫgfasta f (“law-fast”)
* lǫgfastnan f (“lawful betrothal”)
* lǫgfastr (“domiciled”)
* lǫgfróðr (“learned in law”)
* lǫgfrœði f (“law, jurisprudence”)
* lǫgfullr (“lawful, legal”)
* lǫgfundr (“a lawful/public meeting”)
* lǫgfá (“to receive legally”)
* lǫgfákr m (“ship (poetic)”)
* lǫggarðr m (“a lawful fence”)
* lǫggrið n pl (“lawful abode”)
* lǫgheimili n (“lawful domicile”)
* lǫgklókr (“skilled, versed in the law”)
* lǫgkrókar m pl (“law quibbles”)
* lǫgkvǫð f (“legal summons”)
* lǫgkœni f (“skill in the law”)
* lǫgkœnn (“skilled, versed in the law”)
* lǫgkœnska f (“skill in the law”)
* lǫglauss (“unlawful”)
* lǫgleiða (“to bring (a freed man) to the privileges of the law; to introduce as law”)
* lǫgleysa f (“lawlessness”)
* lǫgliga (“lawfully”)
* lǫgligr (“lawful, legal”)
* lǫglýsing f (“legal declaration”)
* lǫgmaðr m (“lawyer, lawspeaker”)
* lǫgmál n (“prescription, rule of law; mutual agreement”)
* lǫgmálsbók f (“book of the law”)
* lǫgmálsspjǫld n pl (“law tables”)
* lǫgmálsstaðr m (“legal point, ground of action”)
* lǫgmálsǫrk f (“the ark of the covenant”)
* lǫgmæltr (“prescribed by the law”)
* lǫgnautr m (“messmate”)
* lǫgneyti n (“messmateship”)
* lǫgrengd f (“legal challenge”)
* lǫgruðning f (“legal challenge”)
* lǫgráðandi m (“a legal guardian, warden”)
* lǫgræna (“to deprive of the law”)
* lǫgræningr m (“a man who has been cheated of his lawful right”)
* lǫgrétt f (“public fold”)
* lǫgrétta f (“legislature; court of law”)
* lǫgréttumaðr m (“member of the lǫgrétta”)
* lǫgréttuskipan f (“order, constitution of the lǫgrétta”)
* lǫgsaga f (“pronouncing the law”)
* lǫgsekr (“guilty by law”)
* lǫgsjándi m (“surveyor; lawful witness”)
* lǫgskil n pl (“pleadings or proceedings as prescribed in the law”)
* lǫgskipan f (“ordinance”)
* lǫgskyld f (“legal debt”)
* lǫgskyldr (“bound by law”)
* lǫgspakr (“learned in the law”)
* lǫgspeki f (“jurisprudence”)
* lǫgstefna f (“lawful summons”)
* lǫgsǫgn f (“the jurisdiction of, office of, or declaration made by a "lǫgmaðr"”)
* lǫgsǫgumaðr m (“law-speaker”)
* lǫgtaka (“to receive by law”)
* lǫgtíund f (“lawful tithe”)
* lǫgtíðir f pl (“canonical hours”)
* lǫgvilla f (“fraudulent procedure”)
* lǫgvillr (“mistaken in point of law”)
* lǫgvitr (“learned in the law”)
* lǫgvǫrn f (“lawful point of defence”)
* lǫgávǫxtr m (“legal interest”)
* lǫgþing n (“general assembly; public meeting”)
* ørlǫg n pl (“fate, doom, fortunes”)
* úlǫg n pl (“injustice, lawlessness”)
* úlǫgliga (“illegally”)
* Þrǿndalǫg n pl (“laws of the Thronds/Throwends or the lands thereunder; Trøndelag”)

##### Related terms

* lag
* lág
* leggja
* liggja

##### Descendants

* Old West Norse:
** Icelandic: lög n pl
** Faroese: løg-
** Norwegian Nynorsk: log f; (dialectal) løg f
* Old East Norse:
** Old Swedish: lagh f
*** Swedish: lag c
*** → Finnish: laki
** Old Danish: lagh, logh, ᛚᚮᚼ n pl or f
*** Danish: lov c
**** Norwegian Bokmål: lov
**** → Faroese: lóg f
**** → Norwegian: lov f or m (partially through Bokmål)
* → Old English: lagu f
** Middle English: lawe, laȝe, laugh, laue
*** English: law
*** Scots: law

### Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

#### Noun

lǫg
* accusative singular of lǫgr

### Further reading

* Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “lög”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press, page 282; also available at the [https://archive.org/stream/concisedictionar001857
* page/282 Internet Archive]
* J.Fritzners ordbok over Det gamle norske sprog, dvs. norrøn ordbok ("J.Fritnzer's dictionary of the old Norwegian language, i.e. Old Norse dictionary"), on lög.