leef

leef

1. Obsolete form of lief.

• elfe, feel, fele, flee

• lewe

From Dutch leven, from Middle Dutch leven, from Old Dutch *livon, from Proto-Germanic *libjaną.

• IPA^(key): /lɪə̯f/

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leef (present leef, present participle lewende, past participle geleef)

1. to live

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• Rhymes: -eːf

leef

1. inflection of leven:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

• lefe, leve, lewe

From Old English lēaf, from Proto-West Germanic *laub, from Proto-Germanic *laubą.

• IPA^(key): /lɛːf/
• Rhymes: -ɛːf

leef (plural leves or lefes)

1. leaf

• English: leaf
  • Tok Pisin: lip
• Scots: leaf, lefe, leif
• Yola: laafe

• “lēf, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

leef

1. dear, beloved, precious