"Leib" meaning in German

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Noun

IPA: /laɪ̯p/ Audio: De-Leib.ogg
Rhymes: -aɪ̯p Etymology: From Middle High German līp, from Old High German līb, from Proto-West Germanic *līb, from Proto-Germanic *lībą (“life, body”), from *lībaną (“to remain, stay, be left”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to stick, glue”). Cognate with German Low German Liev (“body”), Dutch lijf (“body”), English life, Swedish liv (“life, waist”). Etymology templates: {{dercat|de|gmw-pro|gem-pro|ine-pro|inh=2}}, {{inh|de|gmh|līp}} Middle High German līp, {{inh|de|goh|līb}} Old High German līb, {{inh|de|gmw-pro|*līb}} Proto-West Germanic *līb, {{inh|de|gem-pro|*lībą|t=life, body}} Proto-Germanic *lībą (“life, body”), {{m|gem-pro|*lībaną|t=to remain, stay, be left}} *lībaną (“to remain, stay, be left”), {{der|de|ine-pro|*leyp-|t=to stick, glue}} Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to stick, glue”), {{cog|nds-de|Liev|t=body}} German Low German Liev (“body”), {{cog|nl|lijf||body}} Dutch lijf (“body”), {{cog|en|life}} English life, {{cog|sv|liv||life, waist}} Swedish liv (“life, waist”) Head templates: {{de-noun|m,(e)s,er|dim=chen}} Leib m (strong, genitive Leibes or Leibs, plural Leiber, diminutive Leibchen n) Inflection templates: {{de-ndecl|m,(e)s,er}} Forms: Leibes [genitive], Leibs [genitive], Leiber [plural], Leibchen [diminutive, neuter], strong [table-tags], Leib [nominative, singular], Leiber [definite, nominative, plural], Leibes [genitive, singular], Leibs [genitive, singular], Leiber [definite, genitive, plural], Leib [dative, singular], Leibe [dative, singular], Leibern [dative, definite, plural], Leib [accusative, singular], Leiber [accusative, definite, plural]
  1. (dated, higher register or religious) body Tags: dated, masculine, strong Synonyms: Körper
    Sense id: en-Leib-de-noun-Iw2DWNyO
  2. by semantic narrowing more specifically
    trunk, torso
    Tags: masculine, strong Synonyms: Rumpf, Oberkörper, Torso
    Sense id: en-Leib-de-noun-Jp4NABlb Categories (other): German entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of German entries with incorrect language header: 2 65 16 16
  3. by semantic narrowing more specifically
    belly, abdomen, stomach
    Tags: masculine, strong Synonyms: Bauch, Magen
    Sense id: en-Leib-de-noun-xy4qsNUe
  4. by semantic narrowing more specifically
    womb
    Tags: masculine, strong Synonyms: Mutterleib, Bauch [informal], Gebärmutter (english: medical)
    Sense id: en-Leib-de-noun--NIA26lc
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: Astralleib, fettleibig, Leib und Leben, Leib und Seele, Leibesübung, Leibgericht, Leibwächter, Mutterleib

Inflected forms

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          "text": "(Luke 22:19)",
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          "text": "(Line from the Hail Mary)",
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          "text": "(Line from the Hail Mary)",
          "type": "quotation"
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        "womb"
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          "word": "Mutterleib"
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          "word": "Bauch"
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          "english": "medical",
          "word": "Gebärmutter"
        }
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    {
      "audio": "De-Leib.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/4/44/De-Leib.ogg/De-Leib.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/44/De-Leib.ogg",
      "text": "Audio"
    }
  ],
  "word": "Leib"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable German dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-21 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.