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English word life comes from Proto-Indo-European *ley-, and later Proto-Germanic *lībaną (To remain, to be left.)
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*ley- (Proto-Indo-European)
to be slippery, glide, streak, to avoid, elude, decline, shrink away from, recede, to elude, avoid, shrink from
*leyp- (Proto-Indo-European)
*lībaną (Proto-Germanic)
To remain, to be left.
*lībą (Proto-Germanic)
Body. Life.
līf (Old English)
lif (Old English)
Life.
lyf (Middle English)
Life.
life (English)
(biology) A status possessed by any of a number of entities, including animals, plants, fungi, bacteria, and sometimes viruses, which have the properties of replication and metabolism.. (colloquial) A life sentence; a term of imprisonment of a convict until his or her death.. (countable) The fact of a particular individual being alive; a living individual.. (informal) Social life.. [...]