lafa

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Adangme

Numeral

lafa

  1. 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)

  1. to dangle, to hang loosely

Further reading

  • Guus Kroonen (2013) “laben”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 321

Anagrams

Old English

Pronunciation

Noun

lāfa

  1. nominative plural of lāf

Turkish

Noun

lafa

  1. dative singular of laf
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