lyf

From Dutch lijf.

• IPA^(key): /ləif/

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lyf (plural lywe, diminutive lyfie)

1. body, corpse

• liggaam

From Old Norse lyf, from Proto-Germanic *lubją.

• IPA^(key): /lɪːv/

  Rhymes: -ɪːv

lyf n (genitive singular lyfs, nominative plural lyf)

1. (medicine) drug, medicine

• (drug): meðal n

• eiturlyf
• eiturlyfjasali
• lyfjasali

• leyfe, lif, life, lijf, live

From Old English līf, from Proto-West Germanic *līb, from Proto-Germanic *lībą.

• IPA^(key): /liːf/
• Rhymes: -iːf

lyf (plural lyves or lyven, dative lyve)

1. life
   • c. 1380, Geoffrey Chaucer, Parlement of Foulys:

     The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne,

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.)‎, published c. 1410, Joon 10:10, page 49v, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:

     a nyȝt þeef comeþ not .· but þat he ſteele ſle ⁊ leeſe / and I cam þat þey haue lijf .· ⁊ haue more plenteuouſli.

     A stealthy thief doesn't come unless he can steal, kill, and ruin. But I came so they could have life, and have it more abundantly.

• alyve
• lyfles
• lyven
• lyvere

• English: life
• Scots: life, leif
• Yola: lief, life

• “līf, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

• (North Wales) IPA^(key): /lɨːv/
• (South Wales) IPA^(key): /liːv/

lyf

1. Soft mutation of llyf.