See also: LiF and líf

EnglishEdit

Alternative formsEdit

NounEdit

lif (uncountable)

  1. The fibre by which the petioles of the date palm are bound together, from which various kinds of cordage are made.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for lif in
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

AnagramsEdit

German Low GermanEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

lif n (genitive lives, dative live)

  1. Alternative form of Lief

HausaEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English lift.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

lîf m

  1. elevator, lift

Middle EnglishEdit

NounEdit

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.

Middle Low GermanEdit

EtymologyEdit

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

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

lîf n (genitive lives, dative live)

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

DescendantsEdit

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

Old EnglishEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Germanic *lībą.

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

līf n

  1. life

DeclensionEdit

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SwedishEdit

PronunciationEdit

NounEdit

lif n

  1. Obsolete spelling of liv

DeclensionEdit

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

AnagramsEdit

VolapükEdit

EtymologyEdit

Borrowed from English life.

NounEdit

lif (nominative plural lifs)

  1. life

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WelshEdit

NounEdit

lif

  1. Soft mutation of llif.

MutationEdit

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.