Cornish edit

Etymology edit

From Middle Cornish lyver, from Proto-Brythonic *llɨβr, borrowed through Vulgar Latin from Latin liber, librum. Compare Breton levr, Welsh llyfr.

Noun edit

lyver m (plural lyvrow)

  1. book
    Na wrug avy byscath gwelas lyver Kernowak.
    I never saw a Cornish book.

Danish edit

Verb edit

lyver

  1. present of lyve

Middle English edit

Etymology 1 edit

Noun edit

lyver

  1. Alternative form of lyvere (liver)

Etymology 2 edit

Noun edit

lyver

  1. Alternative form of lyvere (living being)

Etymology 3 edit

Verb edit

lyver

  1. Alternative form of lyveren

Norwegian Bokmål edit

Verb edit

lyver

  1. present of lyve