Proto-Germanic *lībą

→ English life (inherited)

→ Old English lif (inherited)

→ Cimbrian laip (inherited)

→ Danish liv (inherited)

→ German Leib (inherited)

→ Middle Dutch lijf (inherited)

→ Faroese lív (derived)

→ West Frisian liif (inherited)

→ Middle Low German lif (inherited)

→ Central Franconian Liev (inherited)

→ Alemannic German Liib (inherited)

→ Icelandic líf (derived)

→ Luxembourgish Leif (inherited)

→ Norwegian Bokmål liv (inherited)

→ Norwegian Bokmål A4-liv (inherited)

→ Low German Lief (inherited)

→ Dutch lijf (inherited)

→ Norwegian Nynorsk liv (inherited)

→ Old Norse líf (inherited)

→ Old Norse Eilífr (derived)

→ Saterland Frisian Lieuw (derived)

→ Swedish liv (inherited)

→ Yiddish לײַב (inherited)

→ Zealandic lief (inherited)