Contextualizebeta

lawmaking

noun

Etymology

From law + making.

  1. derived from *maǵ-✻ — “to knead, oil”
  2. inherited from *gamakô✻ — “companion, comrade”
  3. inherited from *gamakō✻
  4. inherited from ġemaca — “a mate, an equal, companion, peer”
  5. inherited from make
  6. compounded as lawmaking — “law + make”

Definitions

  1. The process of passing or enacting laws

    The process of passing or enacting laws; legislation.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at lawmaking. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

01lawmaking02passing03passes04pass05change06replace07pay08obligation09law10legislative

A definitional loop anchored at lawmaking. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at lawmaking

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA