lifa.
to live
Meaning & usage
to live
to experience something
to survive, to endure, to come through
Ég lifi.
to burn
Eldurinn lifir.
Where this word comes from
From Old Norse lifa, from Proto-Germanic *libjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“leave, cling, linger”) (cognate with Faroese liva, Swedish leva, Danish and Norwegian leve, Dutch leven, German leben, English live).
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