Lifen

Bosworth & Toller Anglo-Saxon Old English Dictionary - lifen

According to the Old English Dictionary:

leofen, e;

lifen
f. That by which one lives, support, sustenance :-- Libn vicatum [ = victum], Wrt. Voc. ii. 123, 51; Ep. Gl. 28 b, 17. Lífes tó leofne for the support of life, Andr. Kmbl. 2247; An. 1125. [Cf. Goth. libains life.]

Related words: and-lifen. lifen

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