lawlessness

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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *legh-der. Proto-Germanic *lagą Old Norse lag Old Norse lǫgbor. Old English lagu Middle English lawe Proto-Indo-European *lewh1- Proto-Indo-European *lewHs-der. Proto-Germanic *leusaną Proto-Germanic *lausaz Proto-Germanic *-lausaz Proto-West Germanic *-laus Old English -lēas Middle English -les Middle English laweles English lawless Proto-Germanic *-in- Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh2yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h2ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English lawlessness From lawless + -ness.

55 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Arabic: عَدَم وُجُود قَوَانِين (ʕadam wujūd qawānīn) — lack of law and order
• Azerbaijani: qanunsuzluq — lack of law and order
• Azerbaijani: hüquqsuzluq — lack of law and order
• Azerbaijani: özbaşınalıq — lack of law and order
• Belarusian: беззако́нне (bjezzakónnje) — lack of law and order
• Belarusian: бяспра́ўе (bjaspráwje) — lack of law and order
• Bulgarian: беззако́ние (bezzakónie) — lack of law and order
• Chinese Mandarin: 無法無天 /无法无天 (wúfǎwútiān) — lack of law and order
• Crimean Tatar: qanunsızlıq — lack of law and order
• Czech: nezákonnost — lack of law and order
• Czech: bezpráví — lack of law and order
• Danish: lovløshed — lack of law and order
• Danish: retsløshed — lack of law and order
• Dutch: wetteloosheid — lack of law and order
• Finnish: laittomuus — lack of law and order
• French: anarchie — lack of law and order
• French: illégalité — lack of law and order
• German: Gesetzlosigkeit — lack of law and order
• German: Zügellosigkeit — lack of law and order
• Greek: ανομία (anomía) — lack of law and order
• Greek: αναρχία (anarchía) — lack of law and order
• Hindi: अव्यवस्था (avyavasthā) — lack of law and order
• Hindi: अराजकता (arājaktā) — lack of law and order
• Irish: aindlí — lack of law and order
• Italian: illegalità — lack of law and order
• Italian: Far West — lack of law and order
• Japanese: 無法 (muhō) — lack of law and order
• Korean: 무법 (mubeop) — lack of law and order
• Latvian: nelikumība — lack of law and order
• Macedonian: беззаконитост (bezzakonitost) — lack of law and order
• Māori: turekoretanga — lack of law and order
• Norwegian Bokmål: lovløshet — lack of law and order
• Norwegian Bokmål: akt — lack of law and order
• Norwegian Bokmål: fredløshet — lack of law and order
• Norwegian Nynorsk: lovløyse — lack of law and order
• Persian: بیقانونی (bi-qânuni) — lack of law and order
• Polish: bezprawie — lack of law and order
• Polish: swawola — lack of law and order
• Portuguese: anarquia — lack of law and order
• Romanian: anarhie — lack of law and order
• Romanian: ilegalitate — lack of law and order
• Russian: беззако́ние (bezzakónije) — lack of law and order
• Russian: беспра́вие (besprávije) — lack of law and order
• Russian: беспреде́л (bespredél) — lack of law and order
• Serbo-Croatian: бѐспра̄вље — lack of law and order
• Serbo-Croatian: беза́коње — lack of law and order
• Serbo-Croatian: bèsprāvlje — lack of law and order
• Serbo-Croatian: bezákonje — lack of law and order
• Slovak: nezákonnosť — lack of law and order
• Slovak: bezprávie — lack of law and order
• Slovene: brezzakonje — lack of law and order
• Spanish: iniquidad — lack of law and order
• Swedish: laglöshet — lack of law and order
• Ukrainian: беззако́ння (bezzakónnja) — lack of law and order
• Ukrainian: безпра́в'я (bezprávʺja) — lack of law and order