lifayel

Volapük

Etymology

lifa (“of life”) +‎ yel (“year”)

Noun

lifayel (nominative plural lifayels)

1. year old (i.e., year of age)
   • 1937, “‚Johann Martin Schleyer’”, in Volapükagased pro Nedänapükans, page 34:

     Ven älabom lifayelis lul äprimom ad golön lü jul.

     When he was five years old, he started going to school.

Declension

declension of lifayel

	singular	plural
nominative	lifayel	lifayels
genitive	lifayela	lifayelas
dative	lifayele	lifayeles
accusative	lifayeli	lifayelis
vocative 1	o lifayel!	o lifayels!
predicative 2	lifayelu	lifayelus

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