Icelandic

Verb

lifa ‎(weak verb, third-person singular past indicative lifði, supine lifað)

1. (intransitive) to live
   • Genesis 5:3 (Icelandic, English)

     Adam lifði hundrað og þrjátíu ár. Þá gat hann son í líking sinni, eftir sinni mynd, og nefndi hann Set.

     When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth.

2. (transitive, governs the accusative) to experience something ^syn.
3. (transitive, intransitive, governs the accusative) to survive, to endure, to come through ^syn.

   Ég lifi.‎

   I'll come through.

4. (intransitive, of fire) to burn ^syn.

   Eldurinn lifir.‎

   The fire is burning.

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

Synonyms

• (experience): ^def. reyna
• (survive): ^def. endast, þrauka
• loga, brenna

Anagrams

• afli

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *libjaną ‎(“to live, to be alive”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- ‎(“to leave, cling, linger”). Cognate with Old English libban, Old Frisian leva, Old Saxon libbian, Old Dutch libben, Old High German lebēn, Gothic 𐌻𐌹𐌱𐌰𐌽 ‎(liban).

Verb

lifa ‎(singular past indicative lifði, plural past indicative lifðu, past participle lifðr)

1. to live
2. to be alive

Conjugation

Descendants

References

• lifa in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

Volapük

Noun

lifa

1. genitive singular of lif