lifa

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).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɪːva/

  Rhymes: -ɪːva

lifa (weak verb, third-person singular past indicative lifði, supine lifað)

1. (intransitive) to live
   • Genesis 5:3 (Icelandic, English)

     Adam lifði hundrað og þrjátíu ár. Þá gat hann son í líking sinni, eftir sinni mynd, og nefndi hann Set.

     When Adam had lived 130 years, he had a son in his own likeness, in his own image; and he named him Seth.

2. to experience something [with accusative]

   Synonym: reyna

3. to survive, to endure, to come through [intransitive or with accusative]

   Synonyms: endast, þrauka

   Ég lifi.

   I'll come through.

4. (intransitive, of fire) to burn

   Synonyms: loga, brenna

   Eldurinn lifir.

   The fire is burning.

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• afli

• IPA^(key): /ˈliː.fɑ/, [ˈliː.vɑ]

līfa

1. genitive plural of līf

From Proto-Germanic *libjaną (“to live, to be alive”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to leave, cling, linger”). Cognate with Old English libban, Old Frisian leva, Old Saxon libbian, Old Dutch libben, Old High German lebēn, Gothic 𐌻𐌹𐌱𐌰𐌽 (liban).

lifa (singular past indicative lifði, plural past indicative lifðu, past participle lifaðr)

1. to live
2. to be alive

• Icelandic: lifa
• Faroese: liva
• Norwegian Nynorsk: leva, liva (pre-1917 spelling)
• Old Swedish: liva, leffua
  • Swedish: leva, lefva (pre-1906 spelling)
• Danish: leve
  • Norwegian Bokmål: leve

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) “lifa”, in A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press; also available at the Internet Archive

From li- +‎ -fa.

lîfá class 5 (plural émâfá class 6)

1. inheritance
2. growth under the skin

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

lifa

1. genitive singular of lif