loi
French
noun
Definitions
- law (legal code)
- law (scientific principle)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French loy inherited from Old French loi (regulation, rule, law) inherited from Latin lēgem inherited from Proto-Italic *lēg- inherited from Proto-Indo-European *leǵ-s.
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*leǵ-s
Gloss
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- legem, lex Latin
- lex Latin
- lex, lēgem Latin
- lēgem Latin
- lēgālis Latin
- lēx, lēgem Latin
- serviens ad legem Latin
- loyal German
- legge Italian
- loyal French
- loyalisme French
- loyaliste French
- лояльный Russian
- ley Spanish, Castilian
- *legʰ-s Proto-Indo-European
- *leǵ-s Proto-Indo-European
- lojal Norwegian Bokmål
- lei Portuguese
- lojal Swedish
- lojal Norwegian Nynorsk
- loyal Danish
- loi Old French
- loial Old French
- lojala Esperanto
- lege Romanian, Moldavian, Moldovan
- louai Norman
- лоялен Bulgarian
- loy Middle French
- lei Old Portuguese
- leadzi Aromanian
- *lēg- Proto-Italic
- llei Asturian
- leç Friulian
- ley Old Occitan