Unnumbered source etymology · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryThe usually green and flat organ that represents the most prominent feature of most vegetative plants. · A foliage leaf or any of the many and often considerably different structures it can specialise into. · Anything resembling the leaf of a plant. · A sheet of a book, magazine, etc. (consisting of two pages, one on each face of the leaf).
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ-der.? Proto-Germanic *laubą Proto-West Germanic *laub Old English lēaf Middle English lef English leaf From Middle English lef, leef, from Old English lēaf, from Proto-West Germanic *laub, from Proto-Germanic *laubą (“leaf”), from Proto-Indo-European *lowbʰ-o-m, from *lewbʰ- (“to cut off”). Cognates Cognate with Scots leaf (“leaf”), Yola laafe (“leaf”), North Frisian luuf (“leaf”), Saterland Frisian Loof (“leaf”), West Frisian leaf (“leaf”), Cimbrian loap (“leaf”), Dutch loof (“foliage”), German Laub (“leaves”), German Low German Loov (“leaf”), Luxembourgish Laf (“foliage, leaves”), Mòcheno lap (“leaf”), Vilamovian łaub, łaup, łojp (“leaf”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål løv (“leaf”), Faroese leyv (“leaf”), Icelandic lauf (“leaf”), Norwegian Nynorsk lauv (“leaf”), Swedish löv (“leaf”), Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌿𐍆𐍃 (laufs, “leaf”); also Irish luibh (“herb, plant”), Latin liber (“bast; book”), Albanian labë (“rind”), Lithuanian lúobas (“bark; bast”), Polish łub (“bark”), Russian луб (lub, “bast”). (Internet slang: Canadian): In reference to the maple leaf as national symbol.
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- Inherited-form mentionlefenm
- Inherited-form mentionlēafang
- Inherited-form mention*laubgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*laubągem-pro · leaf
- Cognate mentionleafsco · leaf
- Cognate mentionlaafeyol · leaf
- Cognate mentionluuffrr · leaf
- Cognate mentionLoofstq · leaf
- Cognate mentionleaffy · leaf
- Cognate mentionloapcim · leaf
- Cognate mentionloofnl · foliage
- Cognate mentionLaubde · leaves
- Cognate mentionLaflb · foliage, leaves
- Cognate mentionlapmhn · leaf
- Cognate mentionłaubwym
- Cognate mentionleyvfo · leaf
- Cognate mentionlaufis · leaf
- Cognate mentionlauvnn · leaf
- Cognate mentionlövsv · leaf
- Cognate mention𐌻𐌰𐌿𐍆𐍃got · leaf
- Cognate mentionluibhga · herb, plant
- Cognate mentionliberla · bast; book
- Cognate mentionlabësq · rind
- Cognate mentionlúobaslt · bark; bast
- Cognate mentionłubpl · bark
- Cognate mentionлубru · bast
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"Laf#Luxembourgish"
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"łaub",
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"łaup",
"łaup#Vilamovian"
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"łojp",
"łojp#Vilamovian"
],
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"Danish",
"løv#Danish"
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"løv#Norwegian_Bokmål"
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"leyv",
"leyv#Faroese"
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"lauf",
"lauf#Icelandic"
],
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"lauv",
"lauv#Norwegian_Nynorsk"
],
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"löv",
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],
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"𐌻𐌰𐌿𐍆𐍃#Gothic"
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"luibh#Irish"
],
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"liber",
"liber#Latin:_book"
],
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"labë",
"labë#Albanian"
],
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"lúobas",
"luobas#Lithuanian"
],
[
"łub",
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],
[
"луб",
"луб#Russian"
],
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"maple leaf",
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]
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"Anything resembling the leaf of a plant.",
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