Other forms: livers
The liver is the large organ that cleans poisons out of your body. Liver damage, liver function, fried liver.
It does several hundred jobs besides — bile, clotting factors, storing sugar — and it is the only human organ that regenerates, which is what makes living donation possible. As food it is very rich in iron and vitamin A, so much so that eating too much of certain animals' liver is genuinely dangerous.
1nounliverThe large organ that cleans poisons out of the body.
“Drinking too much alcohol can damage your liver.”
liver is an organ.
Old English lifer comes from a Germanic word, from a root meaning to stick or smear. The English word is very old and unchanged.
Proto-Indo-European
*leyp- — to smear, smudge, stick
Proto-Germanic
*librō
Proto-West Germanic
*libru
Old English
lifer — liver
Middle English
lyvere
English, today
liver
From Middle English lyvere, lyver, from Old English lifer (“liver”), from Proto-West Germanic libru, from Proto-Germanic librō, from Proto-Indo-European leyp- (“to smear, smudge, stick”), from Proto-Indo-European ley- (“to be slimy, be sticky, glide”). Cognate with stq Líeuwer, Lieuwer (“liver”),German Leber (“liver”), Danish, Dutch, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, Swedish and West Frisian lever (“liver”), Faroese livur (“liver”), Icelandic lifur (“liver”). Related to live.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA