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Adangme
Numeral
lafa
- hundred
- sidi lafa
- a hundred cedis
Icelandic
Etymology
From Old Norse lafa, from Proto-Germanic *labēn- (“to dangle”), from Proto-Indo-European *leb- (“to hang loosely”).
Pronunciation
Verb
lafa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative lafði, supine lafað)
- to dangle, to hang loosely
Further reading
- Kroonen, Guus (2013) “laben”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 321
Anagrams
Old English
Pronunciation
Noun
lāfa
- nominative plural of lāf
Turkish
Noun
lafa
- dative singular of laf