Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗A large organ in the body that stores and metabolizes nutrients, destroys toxins and produces bile. It is responsible for thousands of biochemical reactions. · This organ, as taken from animals used as food. · A dark brown colour, tinted with red and gray, like the colour of liver. · Any of various chemical compounds—particularly sulfides—thought to resemble livers in color.
Of the colour of liver (dark brown, tinted with red and gray).
From Middle English lyvere, lyver, from Old English lifer (“liver”), from Proto-West Germanic *libru, from Proto-Germanic *librō, from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to smear, smudge, stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *ley- (“to be slimy, be sticky, glide”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Líeuwer, Lieuwer (“liver”),German Leber (“liver”), Danish, Dutch, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Swedish, and West Frisian lever (“liver”), Faroese livur (“liver”), Icelandic lifur (“liver”). Related to live.
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- Root classification mention*leyp-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionlyvereenm
- Inherited-form mentionliferang · liver
- Inherited-form mention*librugmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*librōgem-pro
- Derivation mention*leyp-ine-pro · to smear, smudge, stick
- Derivation mention*ley-ine-pro · to be slimy, be sticky, glide
- Cognate mentionLíeuwerstq
- Cognate mentionLeberde · liver
- Cognate mentionlivurfo · liver
- Cognate mentionlifuris · liver
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