Description:

The term 'lawf' pertains to chasing, hunting or pursuing. It is a loanword from German 'laufen', but has a somewhat different sense from the German, where it just means 'run'. It is unknown how it entered the language, other than that it seems to ge back to the late early period or early middle, and it is one of the few words of German origin found in Common.

Verb:

As a verb, 'lawf' means to chase, pursue or hunt someone or something. It is a rare example of a verb of motion that is a transitive skurun verb rather than a semitransitive noxaj verb, but that probable has to do with the fact that 'lawf' is viewed as something always undertaken by continuous volition and directly affecting its object. It has an ergative chaser and an absolutive thing chased, and it carries the implication that the thing chased is trying to escape.

Noun:

As a noun, 'lawf' means a hunt, chase or pursuit, or hunting in general. The derived form 'lawfca' means pursuer or hunter, and the derived form 'lawfka' means the target of pursuit, or prey (generally prior to being caught and killed).