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leva

Pronunciation: /²leːva/

“leva” is a Swedish word. Its 8 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to live, to be alive (concretely or figuratively)
  2. to live (lead one's life somewhere, with someone, or the like)
  3. to live (in a particular way), to lead
  4. to live on, to live off (something)
  5. to be live (be in active play, of a ball)
  6. to be wild (and noisy) (of a person or animal the like, or other things by extension)
  7. to party, to indulge in debauchery
  8. to leave

Etymology

From Old Swedish liva, from Old Norse lifa, from Proto-Germanic *libjaną, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“leave, cling, linger”). Cognate with Norwegian leve, Danish leve, Icelandic lifa, Dutch leven, German leben and English live.

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