lyf – Middle English noun declension

Middle English noun forms of lyf

Noun: lyf
Sg.lyf
Pl.lyves; lyven

Genitive

Dative

Sg.lyve

Sample Sentences

  • The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne, [c. 1380, Geoffrey Chaucer, Parlement of Foulys:]
  • a nyȝt þeef comeþ not .· but þat he ſteele ſle ⁊ leeſe / and I cam þat þey haue lijf .· ⁊ haue more plenteuouſli. (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.) [c. 1395, John Wycliffe, John Purvey [et al.], transl., Bible (Wycliffite Bible (later version), MS Lich 10.), published c. 1410, Joon 10:10, folio 49, verso, column 1; republished as Wycliffe's translation of the New Testament, Lichfield: Bill Endres, 2010]

Nouns inflected like lyf

lyf,

Etymology

From Old English līf, from Proto-West Germanic *līb, from Proto-Germanic *lībą.

Verbs referencing "lyf"

English Nouns life.

Translations