lyve

From Old Danish liughæ, lyffuæ, liffuæ, from Old Norse ljúga, from Proto-Germanic *leuganą, from Proto-Indo-European *lewgʰ- (“to tell a lie”). Cognate with Swedish ljuga, Gothic 𐌻𐌹𐌿𐌲𐌰𐌽 (liugan), German lügen, Dutch liegen, and English lie.

• IPA^(key): [ˈlyːʋə], [ˈlyːʊ]

lyve (imperative lyv, infinitive at lyve, present tense lyver, past tense løj, perfect tense har løjet)

1. to lie (tell an untruth)
2. to fib

• Norwegian Bokmål: lyve

• “lyve” in Den Danske Ordbog
• “lyve,2” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

lyve

1. dative singular of lyf
   • c. 1380s, [Geoffrey Chaucer, William Caxton, editor], The Double Sorow of Troylus to Telle Kyng Pryamus Sone of Troye [...] [Troilus and Criseyde], [Westminster]: Explicit per Caxton, published 1482, →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], book V, [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, folio cciii, recto:

     For I haue herde oꝛ thys of many a wight / Hath loued thynge he neuer ſawe his lyue

     As I've heard this before from many people / with loved ones they'd never seen in their life

lyve

1. Alternative form of lyven

• juge, ljuge, lyge

From Danish lyve, from Old Norse ljúga, from Proto-Germanic *leuganą, from Proto-Indo-European *lewgʰ- (“to tell a lie”). Cognate with Swedish ljuga, Gothic 𐌻𐌹𐌿𐌲𐌰𐌽 (liugan), German lügen, Dutch liegen, and English lie.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlŷːʋe/

lyve (imperative lyv, present tense lyver, passive lyves, simple past løy, past participle løyet, present participle lyvende)

1. (intransitive) lie (to give false information intentionally)
   • 1867, Henrik Ibsen, Peer Gynt, Gyldendal (1898–1902), volume 3, page 267,

     Peer, du lyver!

     Peer, you're lying!

2. (intransitive) lie (to convey a false image or impression)

   Bildet lyver

   The picture lies

• løgn

• “lyve” in The Bokmål Dictionary.