See also: LIF, LiF, and líf

German Low German edit

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lif n (genitive lives, dative live)

  1. Alternative form of Lief

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Borrowed from English lift.

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lîf m

  1. elevator, lift

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lif

  1. Alternative form of lyf
    • 1390, John Gower, Confessio Amantis:
      Sche preide unto the goddes so, / That sche receyveth al the wo / And deide hirself to give him lif.
      (please add an English translation of this quotation)

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From Old Saxon līf, from Proto-Germanic *lībą.

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lîf n (genitive lives, dative live)

  1. body
  2. life
    Synonym: levend
  3. (figuratively) belly, abdomen
    Synonym: buk

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  • German Low German: Lif n, Lief n
  • Plautdietsch: Läwen

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From Proto-West Germanic *līb, from Proto-Germanic *lībą. Cognate with Old English līf, Old Frisian līf and Old High German līb

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līf n or m

  1. body
  2. life
    Synonym: livon

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References edit

līf”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

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From Proto-Germanic *lībą.

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līf n

  1. life

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lif n

  1. Obsolete spelling of liv

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Declension of lif 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative lif lifvet lif lifven
Genitive lifs lifvets lifs lifvens

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Borrowed from English life.

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lif (nominative plural lifs)

  1. life

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lif

  1. Soft mutation of llif.

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Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
llif lif unchanged unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.