Description:

The term 'lawt' is primarily a noun and means a word.

Noun:

As a noun, 'lawt' is literally a word. It is also used figuratively to mean an utternace, a statement or a speech. If needed to disambiguate, the figurative sense of an utternace is clear in the derived form 'lawtysyn' and the literal sense of a single word can be expressed as 'cajre lawt' or 'ate lawt', 'one word'.

The phrasal form 'was lawt' means slander, or a lie.

In linguistics, the set phrase 'weteras lawt' means a 'phrase', and in Common specifically refers to a unit of speech with a samorka (determiner) and a jerekka (term). 'Ikwéteras lawt' is the technical term for some kind of 'broken' utterance that doesn't fit this bill, like set phrases like 'fo zra'. A naked pronoun without a head terms is also a kind of 'ikwéteras lawt'.

Verb:

As a verb, 'lawt' is a transitive skurun verb meaning to craft a speech or piece of writing. It is a direct calque from English and works the same way, to 'word' something is to craft how it is phrased, not necessarily the act of writing. The ergative subject is the wordsmith and the absolutive object is the utterance or piece of wiriting.

Modifier:

As a modifier 'lawtys' is a bit of a false friend with the English 'wordy'. Where 'wordy' implies over-crafted or too many worfs in English, in Common to say something is 'lawtys' is to say it is articulate or well-crafted.