Part of speech: noun
Gender: masculine, feminine, neuter
Stem: -i-, -i-, -a-
1. air; wind, breeze; 2. sky, heavens; 3. cloud; on lyfte in the air, in midair; in the sky
Etymology
[Mod E LIFT obs “sky” ← Prot-Germ *luftuz, *luftiz; Goth luftus “air”; O Sax luft; Dt lucht; OHG luft (Mod G Luft); O Icel lopt (Mod Icel loft) “air; sky; loft, attic”; Sw luft “air”]
