See lyven in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"word": "live"
},
{
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"word": "leeve"
},
{
"lang": "Yola",
"lang_code": "yol",
"word": "live"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "ang",
"3": "libban"
},
"expansion": "Old English libban",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*libbjan"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *libbjan",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*libjaną"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *libjaną",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Old English libban, lifian, from Proto-West Germanic *libbjan, from Proto-Germanic *libjaną.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "lyveth",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "lyvende",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "lyvynge",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "lyved",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"indicative",
"participle",
"past",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "enm-conj-wk",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "lyven",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "to lyven",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "lyve",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "lyve",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "lyved",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "lyvest",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "lyvedest",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "lyveth",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "lyved",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "lyve",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "lyved",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"singular",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "lyve",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "lyven",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "lyve",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "lyveden",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "lyvede",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "lyveth",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "lyve",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "lyvynge",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "lyvende",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "lyved",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "ylyved",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "leeve",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "lefe",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "leve",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "leven",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "libbe",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "libben",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "lifen",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "live",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "liven",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "lybbe",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "lyve",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "libbæn",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Early-Middle-English"
]
},
{
"form": "libbenn",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Early-Middle-English"
]
},
{
"form": "livie",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Early-Middle-English"
]
},
{
"form": "livien",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Early-Middle-English"
]
},
{
"form": "luvien",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Early-Middle-English"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "verb",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "lyven",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"stem": "lyv"
},
"expansion": "lyven (third-person singular simple present lyveth, present participle lyvende, lyvynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle lyved)",
"name": "enm-verb"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "lyv",
"inf3": "libben",
"inf4": "libbe"
},
"name": "enm-conj-wk"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "16 15 18 15 9 19 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To live (be alive or extant)"
],
"id": "en-lyven-enm-verb-mD4yqhFK",
"links": [
[
"live",
"live"
],
[
"alive",
"alive#English"
],
[
"extant",
"extant#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To live (be alive or extant)"
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "16 15 18 15 9 19 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "I greatly wonder by this light / How it is that I’m alive, for whether it’s day or night / I can hardly sleep at all.",
"roman": "I Haue grete wonder, be this lyghte / How that I lyve, for day ne nyghte / I may nat slepe, wel nygh noght",
"text": "c. 1368, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Book of the Duchess, as recorded c. 1440–1450 in Bodleian Library MS. Fairfax 16, folio 130r",
"translation": "I greatly wonder by this light / How it is that I’m alive, for whether it’s day or night / I can hardly sleep at all.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
26,
31
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
28,
33
]
],
"english": "\"He'll live, and anyone who lives and believes in me won't ever die. Do you believe this?\"",
"ref": "c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Joon 11:28, folio 50, recto; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:",
"text": "he ſchal lyue / ⁊ ech þat lyueþ / ⁊ bileueþ in me .· ſchal not die wiþouten ende / bıleueſt þou þis þĩg /",
"translation": "\"He'll live, and anyone who lives and believes in me won't ever die. Do you believe this?\"",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To live (survive, continue living)"
],
"id": "en-lyven-enm-verb-RuRQKH4R",
"links": [
[
"live",
"live"
],
[
"survive",
"survive#English"
],
[
"living",
"living#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To live (survive, continue living)"
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "16 15 18 15 9 19 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To persist; to continue to exist."
],
"id": "en-lyven-enm-verb-yqt0dlA3",
"links": [
[
"persist",
"persist"
],
[
"exist",
"exist"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, of inanimate objects and abstractions) To persist; to continue to exist."
],
"raw_tags": [
"of inanimate objects and abstractions"
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "16 15 18 15 9 19 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To reside or dwell; to live (somewhere)."
],
"id": "en-lyven-enm-verb-EEg6hemj",
"links": [
[
"reside",
"reside"
],
[
"dwell",
"dwell"
],
[
"live",
"live"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To reside or dwell; to live (somewhere)."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"glosses": [
"To live (in a certain way or condition)"
],
"id": "en-lyven-enm-verb-2X0IwgKc",
"links": [
[
"live",
"live"
],
[
"way",
"way#English"
],
[
"condition",
"condition#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To live (in a certain way or condition)"
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "16 15 18 15 9 19 7",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "12 14 13 14 12 23 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "10 12 12 12 10 35 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To subsist or live on."
],
"id": "en-lyven-enm-verb-rWADi1Ts",
"links": [
[
"subsist",
"subsist"
],
[
"live",
"live"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, with various prepositions) To subsist or live on."
],
"raw_tags": [
"with various prepositions"
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [],
"glosses": [
"To live as (something), to exist as, to live the life of."
],
"id": "en-lyven-enm-verb-EubZEHZX",
"links": [
[
"live",
"live"
],
[
"exist",
"exist"
],
[
"life",
"life"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To live as (something), to exist as, to live the life of."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈlivən/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈleːvən/",
"tags": [
"Northern",
"mainly"
]
}
],
"word": "lyven"
}
{
"categories": [
"Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
"Middle English lemmas",
"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",
"Middle English verbs",
"Middle English weak verbs",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries"
],
"descendants": [
{
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"word": "live"
},
{
"lang": "Scots",
"lang_code": "sco",
"word": "leeve"
},
{
"lang": "Yola",
"lang_code": "yol",
"word": "live"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "ang",
"3": "libban"
},
"expansion": "Old English libban",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*libbjan"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *libbjan",
"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*libjaną"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *libjaną",
"name": "inh"
}
],
"etymology_text": "From Old English libban, lifian, from Proto-West Germanic *libbjan, from Proto-Germanic *libjaną.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "lyveth",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "lyvende",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "lyvynge",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "lyved",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"indicative",
"participle",
"past",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "no-table-tags",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"table-tags"
]
},
{
"form": "enm-conj-wk",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"inflection-template"
]
},
{
"form": "lyven",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "to lyven",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "lyve",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"infinitive"
]
},
{
"form": "lyve",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "lyved",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"first-person",
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "lyvest",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "lyvedest",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"second-person",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "lyveth",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "lyved",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "lyve",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "lyved",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"singular",
"subjunctive"
]
},
{
"form": "lyve",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"present",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"past",
"singular"
]
},
{
"form": "lyven",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "lyve",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "lyveden",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "lyvede",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "lyveth",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "lyve",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"plural",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "-",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"imperative",
"past",
"plural"
]
},
{
"form": "lyvynge",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "lyvende",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "lyved",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "ylyved",
"source": "conjugation",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "leeve",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "lefe",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "leve",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "leven",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "libbe",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "libben",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "lifen",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "live",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "liven",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "lybbe",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "lyve",
"tags": [
"alternative"
]
},
{
"form": "libbæn",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Early-Middle-English"
]
},
{
"form": "libbenn",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Early-Middle-English"
]
},
{
"form": "livie",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Early-Middle-English"
]
},
{
"form": "livien",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Early-Middle-English"
]
},
{
"form": "luvien",
"tags": [
"alternative",
"Early-Middle-English"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "enm",
"2": "verb",
"head": ""
},
"expansion": "lyven",
"name": "head"
},
{
"args": {
"stem": "lyv"
},
"expansion": "lyven (third-person singular simple present lyveth, present participle lyvende, lyvynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle lyved)",
"name": "enm-verb"
}
],
"inflection_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "lyv",
"inf3": "libben",
"inf4": "libbe"
},
"name": "enm-conj-wk"
}
],
"lang": "Middle English",
"lang_code": "enm",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Middle English intransitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To live (be alive or extant)"
],
"links": [
[
"live",
"live"
],
[
"alive",
"alive#English"
],
[
"extant",
"extant#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To live (be alive or extant)"
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Middle English intransitive verbs",
"Middle English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "I greatly wonder by this light / How it is that I’m alive, for whether it’s day or night / I can hardly sleep at all.",
"roman": "I Haue grete wonder, be this lyghte / How that I lyve, for day ne nyghte / I may nat slepe, wel nygh noght",
"text": "c. 1368, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Book of the Duchess, as recorded c. 1440–1450 in Bodleian Library MS. Fairfax 16, folio 130r",
"translation": "I greatly wonder by this light / How it is that I’m alive, for whether it’s day or night / I can hardly sleep at all.",
"type": "quotation"
},
{
"bold_text_offsets": [
[
26,
31
]
],
"bold_translation_offsets": [
[
28,
33
]
],
"english": "\"He'll live, and anyone who lives and believes in me won't ever die. Do you believe this?\"",
"ref": "c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Joon 11:28, folio 50, recto; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010:",
"text": "he ſchal lyue / ⁊ ech þat lyueþ / ⁊ bileueþ in me .· ſchal not die wiþouten ende / bıleueſt þou þis þĩg /",
"translation": "\"He'll live, and anyone who lives and believes in me won't ever die. Do you believe this?\"",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To live (survive, continue living)"
],
"links": [
[
"live",
"live"
],
[
"survive",
"survive#English"
],
[
"living",
"living#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To live (survive, continue living)"
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Middle English intransitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To persist; to continue to exist."
],
"links": [
[
"persist",
"persist"
],
[
"exist",
"exist"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, of inanimate objects and abstractions) To persist; to continue to exist."
],
"raw_tags": [
"of inanimate objects and abstractions"
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Middle English intransitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To reside or dwell; to live (somewhere)."
],
"links": [
[
"reside",
"reside"
],
[
"dwell",
"dwell"
],
[
"live",
"live"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To reside or dwell; to live (somewhere)."
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Middle English intransitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To live (in a certain way or condition)"
],
"links": [
[
"live",
"live"
],
[
"way",
"way#English"
],
[
"condition",
"condition#English"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive) To live (in a certain way or condition)"
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Middle English intransitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To subsist or live on."
],
"links": [
[
"subsist",
"subsist"
],
[
"live",
"live"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(intransitive, with various prepositions) To subsist or live on."
],
"raw_tags": [
"with various prepositions"
],
"tags": [
"intransitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Middle English transitive verbs"
],
"glosses": [
"To live as (something), to exist as, to live the life of."
],
"links": [
[
"live",
"live"
],
[
"exist",
"exist"
],
[
"life",
"life"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To live as (something), to exist as, to live the life of."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈlivən/"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈleːvən/",
"tags": [
"Northern",
"mainly"
]
}
],
"word": "lyven"
}
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