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Where does “alife” come from?

alife (Middle English) comes from Old English on līfe — in life.

Ancestry of “alife”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Old Englishon līfein life

Words derived from “alife”

  • alive
  • aliveness
  • keepalive
  • unalive
  • nonalive
  • unaliveness
Every word from Old English on līfe →