lawe

Etymology
Perhaps from because the practice was ordained by law. Few dictionaries comment directly on the etymology of the sense, but several (which also spell the infinitive law) group it with the other verb and noun senses derived from 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1)  To cut off the claws and balls of (e.g. a dog's forefeet, to hinder it from hunting).

Noun

 * 1) bearer

Verb

 * 1)  to transport, carry, take, bring
 * lawe mai – to bring
 * lawe aku – to take away
 * 1)  to become

Etymology
From, in turn borrowed from , a plural of.

Noun

 * 1) A law, regulation, or a group of them:
 * 2) Ecclesiastical, canon or church law.
 * 3) The regulations followed by a job or group of people.
 * 4) Directives, obligations, or tasks set to someone.
 * 5) Legality; what is legally (and often seen as morally) right.
 * 6) Morality, natural law either instinctual or taught:
 * 7) The Bible or one of the two books which it is composed of.
 * 8) A religion especially Christianity.
 * 9) The Torah or the moral strictures contained within it.
 * 10) One of the Ten Commandments or their totality.
 * 11) The regulating and obligating nature of marriage.
 * 12)  Morality revealed or given from the heavens.
 * 13) A law or the totality of laws active in a community; the law.
 * 14) The practicing of law; litigation, legal action, or part of it.
 * 15) The legal profession; law or the legal system as a job or occupation.
 * 16) A legal ruling or decision; penalisation or compensation.
 * 17) A legal community; the area under the aegis of a given legal system.
 * 18)  Getting one's acquaintances to attest one's innocence.
 * 19)  The law as an individual; those working in law.
 * 20) One's behaviour, acts, practices, or mode of living:
 * 21) The usual behaviour of a group or class of things.
 * 22) The usual behaviour of a people, nation, or community.
 * 23) The method, technique, or way in which something is accomplished.
 * 24) Caution from violence due to law; the effects of law and order.
 * 25)  A trapping, ceremony, or ritual that forms part of a religion.
 * 26)  Customs, behaviours, or actions which are regarded as right; manners.
 * 27) The administrative or governmental system present in a community.
 * 28) A scientific or natural law; a statement of truth.
 * 29) A dispensation one of the periods of Christian history
 * 30) Information or wisdom from a trustworthy or reliable source.
 * 31) A snide or pithy axiom or statement of a general truth.
 * 32)  Something which effects or changes; a force.
 * 33)  Might or potency; the ability to effect one's will.
 * 34)  The state or situation one is in.