"lifa" meaning in Icelandic

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Verb

IPA: /ˈlɪːva/ Forms: lifði [indicative, past, singular, third-person], lifað [supine]
Rhymes: -ɪːva Etymology: From Old Norse lifa, from Proto-Germanic *libjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“leave, cling, linger”) (cognate with Faroese liva, Swedish leva, Danish and Norwegian leve, Dutch leven, German leben, English live). Etymology templates: {{der|is|non|lifa}} Old Norse lifa, {{der|is|gem-pro|*libjaną}} Proto-Germanic *libjaną, {{der|is|ine-pro|*leyp-||leave, cling, linger}} Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“leave, cling, linger”), {{cog|fo|liva}} Faroese liva, {{cog|sv|leva}} Swedish leva, {{m|da|leve}} leve, {{cog|nl|leven}} Dutch leven, {{cog|de|leben}} German leben, {{cog|en|live}} English live Head templates: {{head|is|verb|weak verb||third-person singular past indicative|lifði||{{{22}}}|supine|lifað||{{{33}}}|cat2=weak verbs|head=}} lifa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative lifði, supine lifað)
  1. (intransitive) to live Tags: intransitive, weak
    Sense id: en-lifa-is-verb-ipZlC7B7
  2. (transitive, governs the accusative) to experience something Tags: transitive, weak, with-accusative Synonyms (experience): reyna
    Sense id: en-lifa-is-verb-Z-GGT0Kt Disambiguation of 'experience': 0 92 8 0
  3. (transitive, intransitive, governs the accusative) to survive, to endure, to come through Tags: intransitive, transitive, weak, with-accusative Synonyms (survive): endast, þrauka
    Sense id: en-lifa-is-verb-GHQ9B3rf Disambiguation of 'survive': 6 3 92 0
  4. (intransitive, of fire) to burn Tags: intransitive, weak Categories (topical): Fire Synonyms (burn): loga, brenna
    Sense id: en-lifa-is-verb-rR54mkCl Disambiguation of Fire: 3 5 26 67 Categories (other): Icelandic entries with incorrect language header, Icelandic entries with topic categories using raw markup Disambiguation of Icelandic entries with incorrect language header: 2 2 27 69 Disambiguation of Icelandic entries with topic categories using raw markup: 2 3 22 73 Disambiguation of 'burn': 0 0 0 100
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: lengi lifa, lifa á, lifa af, lifa sig inn í, mega lengi lifa

Download JSON data for lifa meaning in Icelandic (4.5kB)

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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "lengi lifa"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "lifa á"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "lifa af"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "lifa sig inn í"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0 0 0",
      "word": "mega lengi lifa"
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
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      },
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      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "is",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*libjaną"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *libjaną",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "is",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*leyp-",
        "4": "",
        "5": "leave, cling, linger"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“leave, cling, linger”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fo",
        "2": "liva"
      },
      "expansion": "Faroese liva",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sv",
        "2": "leva"
      },
      "expansion": "Swedish leva",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "da",
        "2": "leve"
      },
      "expansion": "leve",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "leven"
      },
      "expansion": "Dutch leven",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "leben"
      },
      "expansion": "German leben",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "live"
      },
      "expansion": "English live",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Norse lifa, from Proto-Germanic *libjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“leave, cling, linger”) (cognate with Faroese liva, Swedish leva, Danish and Norwegian leve, Dutch leven, German leben, English live).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lifði",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lifað",
      "tags": [
        "supine"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
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        "1": "is",
        "10": "lifað",
        "11": "",
        "12": "{{{33}}}",
        "2": "verb",
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        "4": "",
        "5": "third-person singular past indicative",
        "6": "lifði",
        "7": "",
        "8": "{{{22}}}",
        "9": "supine",
        "cat2": "weak verbs",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "lifa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative lifði, supine lifað)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Icelandic",
  "lang_code": "is",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth.",
          "ref": "Genesis 5:3 (Icelandic, English)",
          "text": "Adam lifði hundrað og þrjátíu ár. Þá gat hann son í líking sinni, eftir sinni mynd, og nefndi hann Set."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to live"
      ],
      "id": "en-lifa-is-verb-ipZlC7B7",
      "links": [
        [
          "live",
          "live"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) to live"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "weak"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "glosses": [
        "to experience something"
      ],
      "id": "en-lifa-is-verb-Z-GGT0Kt",
      "links": [
        [
          "experience",
          "experience"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, governs the accusative) to experience something"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "0 92 8 0",
          "sense": "experience",
          "word": "reyna"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive",
        "weak",
        "with-accusative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "I'll come through.",
          "text": "Ég lifi.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to survive, to endure, to come through"
      ],
      "id": "en-lifa-is-verb-GHQ9B3rf",
      "links": [
        [
          "transitive",
          "transitive"
        ],
        [
          "intransitive",
          "intransitive"
        ],
        [
          "survive",
          "survive"
        ],
        [
          "endure",
          "endure"
        ],
        [
          "come through",
          "come through"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, intransitive, governs the accusative) to survive, to endure, to come through"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "6 3 92 0",
          "sense": "survive",
          "word": "endast"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "6 3 92 0",
          "sense": "survive",
          "word": "þrauka"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "transitive",
        "weak",
        "with-accusative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "2 2 27 69",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Icelandic entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "2 3 22 73",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Icelandic entries with topic categories using raw markup",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with topic categories using raw markup",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "3 5 26 67",
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "is",
          "name": "Fire",
          "orig": "is:Fire",
          "parents": [
            "Combustion",
            "Light sources",
            "Chemical processes",
            "Light",
            "Nature",
            "Energy",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "The fire is burning.",
          "text": "Eldurinn lifir.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to burn"
      ],
      "id": "en-lifa-is-verb-rR54mkCl",
      "links": [
        [
          "burn",
          "burn"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, of fire) to burn"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of fire"
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "_dis1": "0 0 0 100",
          "sense": "burn",
          "word": "loga"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "0 0 0 100",
          "sense": "burn",
          "word": "brenna"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "weak"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈlɪːva/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪːva"
    }
  ],
  "word": "lifa"
}
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    "Icelandic 2-syllable words",
    "Icelandic entries with incorrect language header",
    "Icelandic entries with topic categories using raw markup",
    "Icelandic lemmas",
    "Icelandic terms derived from Old Norse",
    "Icelandic terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "Icelandic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Icelandic terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Icelandic verbs",
    "Icelandic weak verbs",
    "Most used Icelandic verbs",
    "Rhymes:Icelandic/ɪːva",
    "Rhymes:Icelandic/ɪːva/2 syllables",
    "is:Fire"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "lengi lifa"
    },
    {
      "word": "lifa á"
    },
    {
      "word": "lifa af"
    },
    {
      "word": "lifa sig inn í"
    },
    {
      "word": "mega lengi lifa"
    }
  ],
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        "2": "non",
        "3": "lifa"
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      "name": "der"
    },
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      "args": {
        "1": "is",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*libjaną"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *libjaną",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "is",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*leyp-",
        "4": "",
        "5": "leave, cling, linger"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“leave, cling, linger”)",
      "name": "der"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "fo",
        "2": "liva"
      },
      "expansion": "Faroese liva",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "sv",
        "2": "leva"
      },
      "expansion": "Swedish leva",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "da",
        "2": "leve"
      },
      "expansion": "leve",
      "name": "m"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "nl",
        "2": "leven"
      },
      "expansion": "Dutch leven",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "de",
        "2": "leben"
      },
      "expansion": "German leben",
      "name": "cog"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "live"
      },
      "expansion": "English live",
      "name": "cog"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Old Norse lifa, from Proto-Germanic *libjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“leave, cling, linger”) (cognate with Faroese liva, Swedish leva, Danish and Norwegian leve, Dutch leven, German leben, English live).",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "lifði",
      "tags": [
        "indicative",
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "lifað",
      "tags": [
        "supine"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "is",
        "10": "lifað",
        "11": "",
        "12": "{{{33}}}",
        "2": "verb",
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        "4": "",
        "5": "third-person singular past indicative",
        "6": "lifði",
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      },
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  "lang_code": "is",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "categories": [
        "Icelandic intransitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth.",
          "ref": "Genesis 5:3 (Icelandic, English)",
          "text": "Adam lifði hundrað og þrjátíu ár. Þá gat hann son í líking sinni, eftir sinni mynd, og nefndi hann Set."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to live"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "live",
          "live"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) to live"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "weak"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Icelandic transitive verbs"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to experience something"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "experience",
          "experience"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, governs the accusative) to experience something"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive",
        "weak",
        "with-accusative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Icelandic intransitive verbs",
        "Icelandic terms with usage examples",
        "Icelandic transitive verbs"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "I'll come through.",
          "text": "Ég lifi.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to survive, to endure, to come through"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "transitive",
          "transitive"
        ],
        [
          "intransitive",
          "intransitive"
        ],
        [
          "survive",
          "survive"
        ],
        [
          "endure",
          "endure"
        ],
        [
          "come through",
          "come through"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, intransitive, governs the accusative) to survive, to endure, to come through"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "transitive",
        "weak",
        "with-accusative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "Icelandic intransitive verbs",
        "Icelandic terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "The fire is burning.",
          "text": "Eldurinn lifir.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to burn"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "burn",
          "burn"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive, of fire) to burn"
      ],
      "raw_tags": [
        "of fire"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive",
        "weak"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈlɪːva/"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ɪːva"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "sense": "experience",
      "word": "reyna"
    },
    {
      "sense": "survive",
      "word": "endast"
    },
    {
      "sense": "survive",
      "word": "þrauka"
    },
    {
      "sense": "burn",
      "word": "loga"
    },
    {
      "sense": "burn",
      "word": "brenna"
    }
  ],
  "word": "lifa"
}

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