lyven

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Middle English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old English libban, lifian, from Proto-West Germanic *libbjan, from Proto-Germanic *libjaną.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈlivən/
  • (mainly Northern) IPA(key): /ˈleːvən/

Verb

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lyven (third-person singular simple present lyveth, present participle lyvende, lyvynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle lyved)

  1. (intransitive) To live (be alive or extant)
  2. (intransitive) To live (survive, continue living)
  3. (intransitive, of inanimate objects and abstractions) To persist; to continue to exist.
  4. (intransitive) To reside or dwell; to live (somewhere).
  5. (intransitive) To live (in a certain way or condition)
  6. (intransitive, with various prepositions) To subsist or live on.
  7. (transitive) To live as (something), to exist as, to live the life of.

Conjugation

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Descendants

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  • English: live
  • Scots: leeve
  • Yola: live

References

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