Noun: liver
| Singular | liver |
| Plural | livers |
Sample Sentences
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Steve Jobs is a famous liver transplant recipient.
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I'd like some goose liver pate.
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You could fry up some chicken livers for a tasty treat. — Nah, I don't like chicken liver.
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"I should think you've rocked the boat enough already by refusing to eat liver." [1993, Philippa Gregory, Fallen Skies, →ISBN, page 222:]
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He gave his horse some liver of antimony.
Nouns inflected like liver
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English lyvere, lyver, from Old English lifer (“liver”), from Proto-West Germanic *libru, from Proto-Germanic *librō, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to smear, smudge, stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley- (“to be slimy, be sticky, glide”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Líeuwer, Lieuwer (“liver”),German Leber (“liver”), Danish, Dutch, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Swedish, and West Frisian lever (“liver”), Faroese livur (“liver”), Icelandic lifur (“liver”). Related to live. See: Middle English Nouns '
lyvere', Old English Nouns '
lifer', German Nouns '
Leber', Faroese Nouns '
livur', Icelandic Nouns '
lifur'.
Verbs referencing "liver"
Danish Nouns
lever, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
lever, German Nouns
Leber, Ukrainian Nouns
лівер.