"byrlaw" meaning in All languages combined

See byrlaw on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

IPA: /ˈbɜː(ɹ).lɔː/ [UK], /ˈbɝ.lɔ/ [US], /ˈbɝ.lɑ/ [cot-caught-merger] Forms: byrlaws [plural]
enPR: bû(r)ʹ-lô [UK], bûrʹ-lô [US], bûrʹ-lä [cot-caught-merger] Etymology: From Old Norse býjar (genitive of býr ‘village, settlement’) + lagu ‘law’. Head templates: {{en-noun}} byrlaw (plural byrlaws)
  1. (obsolete) the local customs and laws of a settlement or district Tags: obsolete
    Sense id: en-byrlaw-en-noun-oIKuzHI4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

{
  "etymology_text": "From Old Norse býjar (genitive of býr ‘village, settlement’) + lagu ‘law’.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "byrlaws",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "byrlaw (plural byrlaws)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "the local customs and laws of a settlement or district"
      ],
      "id": "en-byrlaw-en-noun-oIKuzHI4",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) the local customs and laws of a settlement or district"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "enpr": "bû(r)ʹ-lô",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbɜː(ɹ).lɔː/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "enpr": "bûrʹ-lô",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbɝ.lɔ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "enpr": "bûrʹ-lä",
      "tags": [
        "cot-caught-merger"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbɝ.lɑ/",
      "tags": [
        "cot-caught-merger"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "byrlaw"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "From Old Norse býjar (genitive of býr ‘village, settlement’) + lagu ‘law’.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "byrlaws",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "byrlaw (plural byrlaws)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with obsolete senses",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "the local customs and laws of a settlement or district"
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(obsolete) the local customs and laws of a settlement or district"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "obsolete"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "enpr": "bû(r)ʹ-lô",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbɜː(ɹ).lɔː/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "enpr": "bûrʹ-lô",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbɝ.lɔ/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "enpr": "bûrʹ-lä",
      "tags": [
        "cot-caught-merger"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈbɝ.lɑ/",
      "tags": [
        "cot-caught-merger"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "byrlaw"
}

Download raw JSONL data for byrlaw meaning in All languages combined (1.0kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-06 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (fbeafe8 and 7f03c9b). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.