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Leif is an established Scandinavian name inherited from Old Norse Leifr, meaning “descendant” or “heir”. It belongs to the same naming world as Leif Eriksson, the Norse explorer who reached North America in the early eleventh century. In modern Scandinavian speech it is not generally pronounced like the English word leaf, although British owners may choose their own call pronunciation. The historical sense concerns ancestry, not temperament.
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