lif

• IPA^(key): [liːf]

lif n (genitive lives, dative live)

1. Alternative form of Lief

Borrowed from English lift.

• IPA^(key): /lîf/
  • (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA^(key): [lɪ̂ɸ]

lîf m

1. elevator, lift

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)

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

• IPA^(key): /liːf/

lîf n (genitive lives, dative live)

1. body
2. life

   Synonym: levend

3. (figuratively) belly, abdomen

   Synonym: buk

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

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

līf n or m

1. body
2. life

   Synonym: livon

• Middle Dutch: lijf
  • Dutch: lijf

“līf”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

From Proto-Germanic *lībą.

• IPA^(key): /liːf/

līf n

1. life

• feorh

• līflēas
• līflīċ
• sundorlīf

• libban

• Middle English: lyf, leyfe, lif, life, lijf, live
  • English: life
  • Scots: life, leif
  • Yola: lief, life

• Rhymes: -iːv

lif n

1. Obsolete spelling of liv

• fil, fil.

Borrowed from English life.

lif (nominative plural lifs)

1. life

lif

1. Soft mutation of llif.