lifayel

Volapük

Etymology

lifa (“of life”) +‎ yel (“year”)

Noun

lifayel (nominative plural lifayels)

  1. year old (i.e., year of age)
    • 1937, “‚Johann Martin Schleyer’”, in Volapükagased pro Nedänapükans, page 34:
      Ven älabom lifayelis lul äprimom ad golön lü jul.
      When he was five years old, he started going to school.

Declension

Declension of lifayel
singular plural
nominative lifayel lifayels
genitive lifayela lifayelas
dative lifayele lifayeles
accusative lifayeli lifayelis
vocative 1 o lifayel! o lifayels!
predicative 2 lifayelu lifayelus

1 status as a case is disputed
2 in later, non-classical Volapük only

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