levve
See also: leve
Central Franconian edit
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Etymology edit
From Old High German levēn, northern variant of lebēn, from Proto-Germanic *libjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“leave, cling, linger”).
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Verb edit
levve (third-person singular läv, past participle jeläv)
- (Ripuarian) to live
- 2015, “Dausend Levve”[1]performed by Kasalla:
- Wenn ich dausend Levve ze levve hätt, köm ich dausendmol nit vun dir loss.
Ich hätt dausend Levve bei dir jeläv, ming aale Stadt am Floss.- If I had a thousand lives to live, a thousand times I couldn't get away from you.
A thousand lives I'd have lived with you, my old city by the river.
- If I had a thousand lives to live, a thousand times I couldn't get away from you.