Illustrative Context

How many years can people live for?

Target Sense

• The most basic and generic verb for the state of being alive.
• In most languages this term will be perceived as contrasting directly with the lexeme for the IE-CoR meaning die, in collocations such as English live or die.
• Avoid terms specific to living in a place, e.g. reside, dwell, rather than simply being alive. So in German, the lexeme for this IE-CoR meaning is not wohnen but leben.
• Avoid terms denoting existence (including of objects) rather than life, e.g. exist.
• Avoid terms that inherently bear more specific and additional senses beyond just being alive, including emotive or value judgement senses, e.g. ‘living’ well, happily or (‘living on’) in suffering.
• Avoid terms specific to starting or continuing to live, e.g. be born, survive, live on.