# lib
## Translingual
### Symbol

lib
* (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Likum.

### See also

* Wiktionary's coverage of Likum terms

## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈlɪb/
* Audio (Southern England):(file)
* Rhymes: -ɪb

### Etymology 1

Abbreviation for various words beginning in lib-.

#### Noun

lib (countable and uncountable, plural libs)
* (politics) liberal
    own the libs
* liberation
    women's lib
* library
* libertarian

##### Further reading

* lib on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

### Etymology 2

Inherited from Middle English libbe, from Old English lybb, lyb (“medicine, drug, potion, poison, charm”), from Proto-West Germanic *lubi, from Proto-Germanic *lubją (“wort, herb, drug, poison”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ-, *lewb- (“to peel, break, damage”), from Proto-Indo-European *lew- (“to cut, remove, prune, separate”). Cognate with German Luppe, Lüppe (“salve, ointment, plant juice, medicine, magic”), Icelandic lyf (“medicine, drug”).

#### Noun

lib (plural libs)
* (UK dialectal, Scotland) A potion; magic potion; charm; concoction.

### Etymology 3

From Middle English *libben (suggested by libbyng (“gelding”), lybbere (“gelder”)), related to Dutch lubben (“to castrate, emasculate”), Dutch libbe (“a steer”), lubbert (“a eunuch”). Further relation uncertain. Possibly related to Old English *lybban (“to doctor”), from Proto-West Germanic *lubbjan; or perhaps related to Old English lappa, læppa (“lappet, piece, section, lobe, portion, district”). More at lop.

#### Verb

lib (third-person singular simple present libs, present participle libbing, simple past and past participle libbed)
* (transitive, UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) To geld; castrate; emasculate (usually said of animals).

##### Related terms

* glib
* libbert
* libbet

### Anagrams

* BLI, bil

## Czech
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [ˈlɪp]
* Rhymes: -ɪp

### Verb

lib
* second-person singular imperative of líbit

## Haitian Creole
### Etymology

From French libre (“free”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lib/

### Adjective

lib
* free
* unoccupied
* loose (in morals)

#### Related terms

* libète

### References

* Targète, Jean and Urciolo, Raphael G. Haitian Creole-English dictionary (1993; →ISBN)

## Irish
### Pronoun

lib
* Galway form of libh

## Old High German
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *līb.

### Noun

līb m or n
* life
* livelihood
* body
* monastic life

#### Declension

Masculine declension:
Neuter declension:

#### Derived terms

* guotwerklib

#### Descendants

* Middle High German: līp, līph, līf, līb
** Alemannic German: Liib
** Central Franconian: Liev, Leiv
    Hunsrik: Leib
    Luxembourgish: Läif, Leif
** Cimbrian: laip
** German: Leib
** Vilamovian: łaowa
** Yiddish: לײַב (layb)

## Old Irish
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [lʲiβʲ]

### Pronoun

lib
* second-person plural of la

#### Quotations

* c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 13$^b$12
    Masu glé lib trá in precept ro·pridchus-sa .i. as·réracht Críst hó marbaib, cid dia léicid cundubairt for drécht úaib de resurrectione hominum?If, then, what I have preached is clear to you, namely that Christ has risen from the dead, why do you pl leave doubt on a portion of you concerning the resurrection of humans?(literally, “…the preaching that I have preached…”)
* c. 800, Würzburg Glosses on the Pauline Epistles, published in Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus (reprinted 1987, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies), edited and with translations by Whitley Stokes and John Strachan, vol. I, pp. 499–712, Wb. 14$^a$8
    Níba cuit adíll ⁊ cucuibsi, acht ainfa lib, ar nídad foirbthi-si; it foirbthi immurgu Macidonii.It will not be merely a passing visit to you pl, but I will remain with you, for you are not perfect; the Macedonians, however, are perfect.

#### Descendants

* Irish: libh
* Manx: lhiu
* Scottish Gaelic: leibh

## Volapük
### Noun

lib (nominative plural libs)
* freedom

#### Declension

* $^1$ status as a case is disputed
* $^2$ in later, non-classical Volapük only