Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to leaf
Participle: leafed
Gerund: leafing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | leaf |
| you | leaf |
| he;she;it | leafs |
| we | leaf |
| you | leaf |
| they | leaf |
Perfect
| I | have leafed |
| you | have leafed |
| he;she;it | has leafed |
| we | have leafed |
| you | have leafed |
| they | have leafed |
Past
| I | leafed |
| you | leafed |
| he;she;it | leafed |
| we | leafed |
| you | leafed |
| they | leafed |
Pluperfect
| I | had leafed |
| you | had leafed |
| he;she;it | had leafed |
| we | had leafed |
| you | had leafed |
| they | had leafed |
Future
| I | will leaf |
| you | will leaf |
| he;she;it | will leaf |
| we | will leaf |
| you | will leaf |
| they | will leaf |
Future Perfect
| I | will have leafed |
| you | will have leafed |
| he;she;it | will have leafed |
| we | will have leafed |
| you | will have leafed |
| they | will have leafed |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | leaf |
| you | leaf |
| he;she;it | leaf |
| we | leaf |
| you | leaf |
| they | leaf |
Perfect
| I | have leafed |
| you | have leafed |
| he;she;it | have leafed |
| we | have leafed |
| you | have leafed |
| they | have leafed |
Imperfect
| I | leafed |
| you | leafed |
| he;she;it | leafed |
| we | leafed |
| you | leafed |
| they | leafed |
Pluperfect
| I | had leafed |
| you | had leafed |
| he;she;it | had leafed |
| we | had leafed |
| you | had leafed |
| they | had leafed |
Conditional
Present
| I | would leaf |
| you | would leaf |
| he;she;it | would leaf |
| we | would leaf |
| you | would leaf |
| they | would leaf |
Perfect
| I | would have leafed |
| you | would have leafed |
| he;she;it | would have leafed |
| we | would have leafed |
| you | would have leafed |
| they | would have leafed |
Imperative
| you | leaf |
| we | Let's leaf |
| you | leaf |
Verbs conjugated like 'leaf'
abandon,
abduct,
abear,
aberr,
abject,
abord,
abort,
abound,
abraid,
abray,
abrook,
abscind,
abscond,
absist,
absorb,
abstain,
abstract,
accend,
accent,
accept, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'leaf'
deaf,
heaf,
lead,
leak,
leam,
lean,
leap,
lear,
loaf,
bead,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
1. O.E. leaf "leaf of a plant, page of a book," from P.Gmc. *laubaz (cf. O.S. lof, O.N. lauf, O.Fris. laf, Du. loof, O.H.G. loub, Ger. Laub, Goth. lauf), perhaps from PIE *leup- "to peel off, break off" (cf. Lith. luobas, O.C.S. lubu "bark, rind"). Extended 15c. to very thin sheets of metal (esp. gold). Meaning "hinged flap on the side of a table" is from 1558. The verb meaning "to turn over (the pages of a book)" is from 1663; the sense of a book page is that in the phrase to turn over a (new) leaf (1577). Leaflet is 1787 as a term in botany; 1867 as a term in printing and publication.
2. Etymology tree
3. Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ-der.?
4. Proto-Germanic *laubą
5. Proto-West Germanic *laub
6. Old English lēaf
7. Middle English lef
8. English leaf
9. From Middle English lef, leef, from Old English lēaf, from Proto-West Germanic *laub, from Proto-Germanic *laubą (“leaf”), from Proto-Indo-European *lowbʰ-o-m, from *lewbʰ- (“to cut off”).
10. Cognates
11. Cognate with Scots leaf (“leaf”), Yola laafe (“leaf”), North Frisian luuf (“leaf”), Saterland Frisian Loof (“leaf”), West Frisian leaf (“leaf”), Cimbrian loap (“leaf”), Dutch loof (“foliage”), German Laub (“leaves”), German Low German Loov (“leaf”), Luxembourgish Laf (“foliage, leaves”), Mòcheno lap (“leaf”), Vilamovian łaub, łaup, łojp (“leaf”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål løv (“leaf”), Faroese leyv (“leaf”), Icelandic lauf (“leaf”), Norwegian Nynorsk lauv (“leaf”), Swedish löv (“leaf”), Gothic 𐌻𐌰𐌿𐍆𐍃 (laufs, “leaf”); also Irish luibh (“herb, plant”), Latin liber (“bast; book”), Albanian labë (“rind”), Lithuanian lúobas (“bark; bast”), Polish łub (“bark”), Russian луб (lub, “bast”).
12. (Internet slang: Canadian): In reference to the maple leaf as national symbol.
Sample Sentences
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Then flowered the mead, then leafed all
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'Twas caused by the runic lay. [1828, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, volume I, London: William Harrison Ainsworth, page 164:]
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The lettuce in our burgers is 100% hand-leafed.