Old English · noun
lif
Normalised līf
- Part of speech
- noun, neuter
- Declension
- strong a-stem
- IPA
- /liːf/
- Syllables
- liːf (1 syllable)
- Modern English
- life
Meaning
-
life
hū hī fǣrlīċe · flet ofġēafon,
when I think of all fighters lives, how they suddenly left halls,
þonne iċ eorla līf · eal ġeondþenċe,
Declension
All forms (5)
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *līb, from Proto-Germanic *lībą.
Descendants
life
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