lyf
Afrikaans
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editNoun
editlyf (plural lywe, diminutive lyfie)
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editIcelandic
editEtymology
editFrom Old Norse lyf, from Proto-Germanic *lubją.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editlyf n (genitive singular lyfs, nominative plural lyf)
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editdeclension of lyf
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edit- (drug): meðal n
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editMiddle English
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editEtymology
editFrom Old English līf, from Proto-West Germanic *līb, from Proto-Germanic *lībą.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editlyf (plural lyves or lyven, dative lyve)
- life
- c. 1380, Geoffrey Chaucer, Parlement of Foulys:
- The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne,
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)[1], published c. 1410, Joon 10:10, page 49v, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:
- a nyȝt þeef comeþ not .· but þat he ſteele ſle ⁊ leeſe / and I cam þat þey haue lijf .· ⁊ haue more plenteuouſli.
- A stealthy thief doesn't come unless he can steal, kill, and ruin. But I came so they could have life, and have it more abundantly.
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editReferences
edit- “līf, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
Welsh
editPronunciation
edit- (North Wales) IPA(key): /lɨːv/
- (South Wales) IPA(key): /liːv/
Verb
editlyf
- Soft mutation of llyf.
Mutation
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