beliefan

== Old English == === Alternative forms === belȳfan — Late West Saxon belēfan — Anglian === Etymology === From Proto-West Germanic *bilaubijan, equivalent to be- +‎ līefan. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /beˈli͜yː.fɑn/, [beˈli͜yː.vɑn] === Verb === belīefan (West Saxon) to believe ==== Conjugation ==== ==== Related terms ==== ġelīefan ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: bileven, beleven, believen, bileoven, bilyfen (Early Middle English), be-lif (Early Scots)English: believeMiddle Scots: beleif, beleveScots: believe === References === Joseph Bosworth; T. Northcote Toller (1898), “belífan”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, second edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.