# lif
## Translingual
### Symbol

lif
* (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Limbu.

### See also

* Wiktionary's coverage of Limbu terms

## German Low German
### Pronunciation

* IPA: [liːf]

### Noun

lif n (genitive lives, dative live)
* Alternative form of Lief

## Hausa
### Etymology

Borrowed from English lift.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /lîf/
** (Standard Kano Hausa) IPA: [lɪ̂ɸ]

### Noun

lîf m
* elevator, lift

## Malay
### Etymology

Borrowed from English lift.

### Noun

lif (plural lif-lif, informal 1st possessive lifku, 2nd possessive lifmu, 3rd possessive lifnya)
* elevator, lift

## Middle English
### Noun

lif
* Alternative form of lyf
** 1390, John Gower, Confessio Amantis:Sche preide unto the goddes so, / That sche receyveth al the wo / And deide hirself to give him lif.(please add an English translation of this quotation)

## Middle Low German
### Etymology

From Old Saxon līf, from Proto-Germanic *lībą.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /liːf/

### Noun

lîf n (genitive lives, dative live)
* body
* life
    Synonym: levend
* (figuratively) belly, abdomen
    Synonym: buk

#### Descendants

* Low German: Lief, Liev
** German Low German: Lif n, Lief n
* Plautdietsch: Läwen

## Old Dutch
### Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *līb, from Proto-Germanic *lībą. Cognate with Old English līf, Old Frisian līf and Old High German līb

### Noun

līf n or m
* body
* life
    Synonym: livon

#### Descendants

* Middle Dutch: lijf
** Dutch: lijf

### References

“līf”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

## Old English
### Alternative forms

* liif, lȳf

### Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *lībą.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /liːf/

### Noun

līf n
* life
** 10th century, The Wanderer:þonne iċ eorla līf · eal ġeondþenċe, hū hī fǣrlīċe · flet ofġēafon,when I think of all fighters lives, how they suddenly left halls,

#### Declension

Strong a-stem:

#### Synonyms

* feorh

#### Derived terms

* līflēas
* līflīċ
* sundorlīf

#### Related terms

* libban

#### Descendants

* Middle English: lyf, leyfe, lif, life, lijf, live
** English: life
** Scots: life, leif
** Yola: lief, life

## Swedish
### Pronunciation

* Rhymes: -iːv

### Noun

lif n
* Obsolete spelling of liv.

#### Declension
### Anagrams

* fil, fil.

## Volapük
### Etymology

Borrowed from English life.

### Noun

lif (nominative plural lifs)
* life
** 1937, “‚Johann Martin Schleyer’”, in Volapükagased pro Nedänapükans, page 34:Dü lif vobafulik oka ekanom tuvön timi ad studön pükis e dialegis 88 difikis, ed ad pläyön degtelati musigömas.During his working life, he managed to find the time to study 88 different languages and dialects, and to play twelve musical instruments.

#### Declension

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

#### Derived terms

* bapöfalif
* belif
* belifot
* belifön
* blebükön eki lifiki
* blud lifüköl
* brefalif
* brefalifik
* bödalif
* büsidalif
* dogalif
* dönu elifiköl
* dönulelifikam
* dönulifikam
* dönulifikön
* dönulifükön
* ebepönidom dub dunot at lifi oka
* elifiköl
* febädalif
* felifädön timi, lifi okik
* finükön mekädo lifi eka
* galedanalif
* gitod tefü lif e dead
* hikritanalif
* hilepulalif
* hilifan
* hilifavan
* italifajenäd
* jemodalif
* jikritanalif
* jilifan
* jilifavan
* jäpanalif
* kritanalif
* lailif
* lailifön
* lelif
* lelifikam
* lelifikön
* lelifäl
* lelifälo
* lesinalif
* lif olik riskädikon
* lif sogädakonömik
* lifabim
* lifadul
* lifadulik
* lifadulo
* lifafäg
* lifafägik
* lifagität
* lifahikompenan
* lifajenäd
* lifajikompenan
* lifajuit
* lifakompenan
* lifamal
* lifamod
* lifamotam
* lifamotamik
* lifan
* lifaneod
* lifaneodotasäkäd
* lifaneodotijafäd
* lifanom
* lifariskäd
* lifariskädik
* lifastad
* lifatim
* lifatufav
* lifatufavik
* lifav
* lifavan
* lifavanik
* lifaveg
* lifavik
* lifaviko
* lifayel
* lifazeil
* lifibepenam
* lifibepenan
* lificinik
* lifihibepenan
* lifijibepenan
* lifijuit
* lifijuitik
* lifik
* lifiko
* lifikum
* lifikön
* lifikün
* lifisur
* lifo
* lifot
* lifotalevolf
* lifotavamot
* lifotaväntar
* lifovor
* lifovorik
* lifovorikön
* lifädön
* lifäl
* lifälik
* lifälim
* liföf
* liföfik
* liföfikam
* liföfükön
* lifölans ed edeadölans
* lifön
* lifön bapöfiko
* lifü
* lifükam
* lifükamabain
* lifükamalesetrat
* lifükön
* lifüp
* lifüpakosidid
* lifüpakosididäb
* lifüpamem
* lifüpamemo
* lifüpasoar
* lifüpik
* lomöfalif
* lovelifädön
* lovelifön
* lunalif
* lunalifik
* länädalif
* lüminät sekü lifajenäds (biologalüminät)
* ma lifüpamem
* magot lifik
* magots lifik
* melanalif
* menalif
* miserabalif
* musiganalif
* nelifäl
* nelifälik
* nulalifälim
* oklifibepenam
* periodapelot lifüpik
* privatalif
* selibanalif
* siöralif
* slafanalif
* sogalif
* us lif oya no binon neriskodik
* us lif oya no binon sefik

## Welsh
### Noun

lif
* Soft mutation of llif.

### Mutation

Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh. All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.