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Noun [Afrikaans]

IPA: /ləif/ Audio: LL-Q14196 (afr)-Anon1314-lyf.wav Forms: lywe [plural], lyfie [diminutive]
Etymology: From Dutch lijf. Etymology templates: {{inh|af|nl|lijf}} Dutch lijf Head templates: {{head|af|noun|||plural|lywe|||||diminutive|lyfie|||||||f2accel-form=p|f2request=1|f5accel-form=diminutive|head=}} lyf (plural lywe, diminutive lyfie), {{af-noun|lywe|lyfie}} lyf (plural lywe, diminutive lyfie)
  1. body, corpse Synonyms: liggaam
    Sense id: en-lyf-af-noun-gO~sP5Ct Categories (other): Afrikaans entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 5 entries, Pages with entries

Noun [Icelandic]

IPA: [ˈlɪːv]
Rhymes: -ɪːv Etymology: From Old Norse lyf, from Proto-Germanic *lubją. Etymology templates: {{inh|is|non|lyf}} Old Norse lyf, {{der|is|gem-pro|*lubją}} Proto-Germanic *lubją Head templates: {{is-noun|@@}} lyf n (genitive singular lyfs, nominative plural lyf) Inflection templates: {{is-ndecl|n.j}} Forms: lyfs [genitive, singular], lyf [nominative, plural], neuter [table-tags], lyf [indefinite, nominative, singular], lyfið [definite, nominative, singular], lyf [indefinite, nominative, plural], lyfin [definite, nominative, plural], lyf [accusative, indefinite, singular], lyfið [accusative, definite, singular], lyf [accusative, indefinite, plural], lyfin [accusative, definite, plural], lyfi [dative, indefinite, singular], lyfinu [dative, definite, singular], lyfjum [dative, indefinite, plural], lyfjunum [dative, definite, plural], lyfs [genitive, indefinite, singular], lyfsins [definite, genitive, singular], lyfja [genitive, indefinite, plural], lyfjanna [definite, genitive, plural]
  1. (medicine) drug, medicine Tags: neuter Synonyms: meðal Derived forms: eiturlyf, eiturlyfjasali, lyfjasali

Noun [Middle English]

IPA: /liːf/ Forms: lyves [plural], lyven [plural], lyve [dative, singular], leyf [alternative], lif [alternative], life [alternative], lijf [alternative], live [alternative]
Rhymes: -iːf Etymology: From Old English līf, from Proto-West Germanic *līb, from Proto-Germanic *lībą. Etymology templates: {{inh|enm|ang|līf}} Old English līf, {{inh|enm|gmw-pro|*līb}} Proto-West Germanic *līb, {{inh|enm|gem-pro|*lībą}} Proto-Germanic *lībą Head templates: {{head|enm|noun|g=|g2=|g3=|head=|sort=}} lyf, {{enm-noun|dat=lyve|pl=lyves|pl2=lyven}} lyf (plural lyves or lyven, dative singular lyve)
  1. life Related terms: alyve, lyfles, lyven, lyvere
    Sense id: en-lyf-enm-noun-Y71wZe8e
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Noun [Middle English]

Head templates: {{head|enm|noun|altform=1}} lyf
  1. (West Riding) alternative form of lef (“leaf”) Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: lef (extra: leaf)
    Sense id: en-lyf-enm-noun-a80fqoG1 Categories (other): West Riding Middle English, Middle English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 5 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Middle English entries with incorrect language header: 13 87 Disambiguation of Pages with 5 entries: 15 85 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 7 93
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 2

Noun [Old English]

Forms: lȳf [canonical, neuter]
Head templates: {{ang-noun|n|head=lȳf}} lȳf n
  1. alternative spelling of līf Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: līf
    Sense id: en-lyf-ang-noun-yC~zckhJ Categories (other): Old English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 5 entries, Pages with entries

Verb [Welsh]

IPA: /lɨːv/ [North-Wales], /liːv/ [South-Wales] Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], llyf [error-unrecognized-form], lyf [soft]
Head templates: {{head|cy|mutated verb}} lyf Inflection templates: {{cy-mut|llyf}}
  1. soft mutation of llyf Tags: form-of, mutation-soft Form of: llyf
    Sense id: en-lyf-cy-verb-dBjhX0WN Categories (other): Pages with 5 entries, Pages with entries, Welsh entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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      "expansion": "Dutch lijf",
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  "etymology_text": "From Dutch lijf.",
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        "16": "",
        "17": "",
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        "8": "",
        "9": "",
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  "lang_code": "af",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
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          "source": "w"
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        {
          "word": "liggaam"
        }
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      "source": "declension",
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        "nominative",
        "singular"
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      "source": "declension",
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      "form": "lyfinu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
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    },
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      "form": "lyfjum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "lyfjunum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "lyfs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
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    },
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      "form": "lyfsins",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
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      "source": "declension",
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        "indefinite",
        "plural"
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    },
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      "form": "lyfjanna",
      "source": "declension",
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        "genitive",
        "plural"
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  "lang": "Icelandic",
  "lang_code": "is",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
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        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Icelandic entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
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        },
        {
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          "word": "eiturlyf"
        },
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  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈlɪːv]"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪːv"
    }
  ],
  "word": "lyf"
}

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  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "life"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Scots",
      "lang_code": "sco",
      "word": "life"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Scots",
      "lang_code": "sco",
      "word": "leif"
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    {
      "lang": "Yola",
      "lang_code": "yol",
      "word": "lief"
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    {
      "lang": "Yola",
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    {
      "form": "lyves",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lyven",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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    {
      "form": "lyve",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
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      "form": "leyf",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
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      "tags": [
        "alternative"
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    {
      "form": "life",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
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      "form": "lijf",
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      "tags": [
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    {
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      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              4,
              7
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "c. 1380, Geoffrey Chaucer, Parlement of Foulys:",
          "text": "The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne,",
          "type": "quotation"
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          "english": "A stealthy thief doesn't come unless he can steal, kill, and ruin. But I came so they could have life, and have it more abundantly.",
          "ref": "c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Joon 10:10, folio 49, verso, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010",
          "text": "a nyȝt þeef comeþ not .· but þat he ſteele ſle ⁊ leeſe / and I cam þat þey haue lijf .· ⁊ haue more plenteuouſli.",
          "translation": "A stealthy thief doesn't come unless he can steal, kill, and ruin. But I came so they could have life, and have it more abundantly."
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      "ipa": "/liːf/"
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      "rhymes": "-iːf"
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}

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        "alt-of",
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  ],
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}

{
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        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "source": "mutation",
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        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "llyf",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
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    },
    {
      "form": "lyf",
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        "soft"
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        }
      ],
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      "glosses": [
        "soft mutation of llyf"
      ],
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      ],
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        "form-of",
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  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/lɨːv/",
      "tags": [
        "North-Wales"
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    },
    {
      "ipa": "/liːv/",
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    }
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}
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        "plural"
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        "diminutive"
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        "17": "",
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        "8": "",
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        "Afrikaans terms inherited from Dutch",
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    }
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    {
      "word": "liggaam"
    }
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}

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    },
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      "word": "eiturlyfjasali"
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    {
      "word": "lyfjasali"
    }
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        "2": "non",
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      },
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      "name": "inh"
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      "args": {
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        "2": "gem-pro",
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      "form": "lyfs",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
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    {
      "form": "lyf",
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        "nominative",
        "plural"
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      "form": "neuter",
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      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
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      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
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      "form": "lyf",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
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      "form": "lyfið",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lyf",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "indefinite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lyfin",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lyf",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lyfið",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lyf",
      "source": "declension",
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        "accusative",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lyfin",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lyfi",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lyfinu",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lyfjum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lyfjunum",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "definite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lyfs",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lyfsins",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lyfja",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "indefinite",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lyfjanna",
      "source": "declension",
      "tags": [
        "definite",
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
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        "1": "@@"
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      "name": "is-noun"
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "n.j"
      },
      "name": "is-ndecl"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Icelandic",
  "lang_code": "is",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Icelandic 1-syllable words",
        "Icelandic entries with incorrect language header",
        "Icelandic lemmas",
        "Icelandic neuter nouns",
        "Icelandic nouns",
        "Icelandic terms derived from Old Norse",
        "Icelandic terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
        "Icelandic terms inherited from Old Norse",
        "Icelandic terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Pages with 5 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Rhymes:Icelandic/ɪːv",
        "Rhymes:Icelandic/ɪːv/1 syllable",
        "is:Medicine"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "drug, medicine"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "medicine",
          "medicine"
        ],
        [
          "drug",
          "drug"
        ],
        [
          "medicine",
          "medicine"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(medicine) drug, medicine"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "meðal"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "medicine",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "[ˈlɪːv]"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪːv"
    }
  ],
  "word": "lyf"
}

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    "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
    "Middle English lemmas",
    "Middle English nouns",
    "Middle English terms derived from Old English",
    "Middle English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "Middle English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
    "Middle English terms inherited from Old English",
    "Middle English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
    "Middle English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
    "Pages with 5 entries",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Rhymes:Middle English/iːf",
    "Rhymes:Middle English/iːf/1 syllable"
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "lang": "English",
      "lang_code": "en",
      "word": "life"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Scots",
      "lang_code": "sco",
      "word": "life"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Scots",
      "lang_code": "sco",
      "word": "leif"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Yola",
      "lang_code": "yol",
      "word": "lief"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Yola",
      "lang_code": "yol",
      "word": "life"
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "ang",
        "3": "līf"
      },
      "expansion": "Old English līf",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*līb"
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      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *līb",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "enm",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*lībą"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *lībą",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old English līf, from Proto-West Germanic *līb, from Proto-Germanic *lībą.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lyves",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lyven",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lyve",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "leyf",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lif",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "life",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lijf",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "live",
      "tags": [
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
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      "args": {
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        "2": "noun",
        "g": "",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": "",
        "sort": ""
      },
      "expansion": "lyf",
      "name": "head"
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    {
      "args": {
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        "pl2": "lyven"
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      "expansion": "lyf (plural lyves or lyven, dative singular lyve)",
      "name": "enm-noun"
    }
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  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "noun",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "alyve"
    },
    {
      "word": "lyfles"
    },
    {
      "word": "lyven"
    },
    {
      "word": "lyvere"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Middle English terms with quotations",
        "Requests for translations of Middle English quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "bold_text_offsets": [
            [
              4,
              7
            ]
          ],
          "ref": "c. 1380, Geoffrey Chaucer, Parlement of Foulys:",
          "text": "The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne,",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "english": "A stealthy thief doesn't come unless he can steal, kill, and ruin. But I came so they could have life, and have it more abundantly.",
          "ref": "c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Joon 10:10, folio 49, verso, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010",
          "text": "a nyȝt þeef comeþ not .· but þat he ſteele ſle ⁊ leeſe / and I cam þat þey haue lijf .· ⁊ haue more plenteuouſli.",
          "translation": "A stealthy thief doesn't come unless he can steal, kill, and ruin. But I came so they could have life, and have it more abundantly."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "life"
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          "life"
        ]
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    {
      "ipa": "/liːf/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-iːf"
    }
  ],
  "word": "lyf"
}

{
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    "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
    "Pages with 5 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
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  "etymology_number": "2",
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    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "noun",
        "altform": "1"
      },
      "expansion": "lyf",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Middle English",
  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "extra": "leaf",
          "word": "lef"
        }
      ],
      "categories": [
        "West Riding Middle English"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "alternative form of lef (“leaf”)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "lef",
          "lef#Middle_English:_leaf"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "West Riding",
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      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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}

{
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    {
      "form": "lȳf",
      "tags": [
        "canonical",
        "neuter"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "n",
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      },
      "expansion": "lȳf n",
      "name": "ang-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old English",
  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "līf"
        }
      ],
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        "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
        "Old English lemmas",
        "Old English neuter nouns",
        "Old English nouns",
        "Pages with 5 entries",
        "Pages with entries"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "alternative spelling of līf"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "līf",
          "lif#Old_English"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "alt-of",
        "alternative"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lyf"
}

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      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "cy-mut",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "llyf",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "error-unrecognized-form"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lyf",
      "source": "mutation",
      "tags": [
        "soft"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "cy",
        "2": "mutated verb"
      },
      "expansion": "lyf",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "llyf"
      },
      "name": "cy-mut"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Welsh",
  "lang_code": "cy",
  "pos": "verb",
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    {
      "categories": [
        "Pages with 5 entries",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Welsh entries with incorrect language header",
        "Welsh mutated verbs",
        "Welsh non-lemma forms",
        "Welsh soft-mutation forms"
      ],
      "form_of": [
        {
          "word": "llyf"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "soft mutation of llyf"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "llyf",
          "llyf#Welsh"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "form-of",
        "mutation-soft"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/lɨːv/",
      "tags": [
        "North-Wales"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/liːv/",
      "tags": [
        "South-Wales"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "lyf"
}

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  "subsection": "verb",
  "title": "lyf",
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  "msg": "inflection table: IF WITHOUT ELSE EVALS False: lyf/Welsh 'aspirate' base_tags={'error-unrecognized-form', 'soft'}",
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