lyfとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• leyf, lif, life, lijf, live

発音

• IPA: /liːf/
• 韻: -iːf

名詞

lyf (plural lyves or lyven, dative singular lyve)

1. life
   • c. 1380, Geoffrey Chaucer, Parlement of Foulys:

     The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne,

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

   • 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:

     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.

関連する語

• alyve
• lyfles
• lyven
• lyvere

派生した語

• English: life
• Scots: life, leif
• Yola: lief, life

参照

• “līf, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

語源 2

名詞

lyf

1. (West Riding) alternative form of lef (“leaf”)