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"2": "life"
},
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"3": "*līb"
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},
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],
"etymology_text": "From Old English līf, from Proto-West Germanic *līb, from Proto-Germanic *lībą.",
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"form": "lyves",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
},
{
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"dative"
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},
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"name": "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
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"examples": [
{
"english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"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, page 49v, 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."
}
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"word": "alyve"
},
{
"word": "lyfles"
},
{
"word": "lyven"
},
{
"word": "lyvere"
}
],
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{
"word": "leyfe"
},
{
"word": "lif"
},
{
"word": "life"
},
{
"word": "lijf"
},
{
"word": "live"
}
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/liːf/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-iːf"
}
],
"word": "lyf"
}
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},
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}
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],
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}
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"related": [
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"word": "alyve"
},
{
"word": "lyfles"
},
{
"word": "lyven"
},
{
"word": "lyvere"
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"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",
"Middle English terms with IPA pronunciation",
"Middle English terms with quotations",
"Requests for translations of Middle English quotations",
"Rhymes:Middle English/iːf",
"Rhymes:Middle English/iːf/1 syllable"
],
"examples": [
{
"english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"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, page 49v, 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."
}
],
"glosses": [
"life"
],
"links": [
[
"life",
"life"
]
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/liːf/"
},
{
"rhymes": "-iːf"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "leyfe"
},
{
"word": "lif"
},
{
"word": "life"
},
{
"word": "lijf"
},
{
"word": "live"
}
],
"word": "lyf"
}
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