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Middle English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Old English on līfe; equivalent to a- + lyve (dative singular of lyf (“life”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /aˈliːv(ə)/, /ɔˈliːv(ə)/
Adjective
alyve
- alive, living
c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Apocalips 1:18, page 117v, column 2; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:[…] I am alyue ⁊ I was deed / ⁊ lo I am lyuynge in to woꝛldis of woꝛldis / ⁊ I haue þe keies of deþ ⁊ of helle.- I am alive, though I was dead. Now see - I will be living forever, and I have the keys to death and Hell.
- extant, existent
Usage notes
- Like modern English alive, alyve usually follows the noun it modifies.
Descendants
References
- ^ Jespersen, Otto (1909) A Modern English Grammar on Historical Principles (Sammlung germanischer Elementar- und Handbücher; 9), volumes I: Sounds and Spellings, London: George Allen & Unwin, published 1961, § 6.31, page 194.
- ^ “alīve, adv. & adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.