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frz.:
s'avancer, progresser, comme la vegetation pousse, sortant de terre et s'élevant
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vivant, vie, être vivant
enfanter, mettre au monde

Possible meanings of nowaday
life, to live,  alive, to be born, give birth, to come into being,
to come into existence, to give rise to,
to cause, to breed, to bear, to beget,
grow, get, exist, living, light a fire,
to produce, to create, to bring forth,
savage, untamed,  barbarian, uncultured, unripe,
green, raw, uncooked,  unprocessed, unrefined,
crude, unfamiliar, unacquainted, strange, unknown,
stiff, mechanical,
used before a few words to  express emotion abs sensation: extremly, very, keenly,
existence, livlihood,
pupil, student,
the male character type in Chinese opera, creatures,
a Chinese family name

Konkordanz im Daodejing - Concordance
Kapitel / chapter #2, #7, #10, #15, #25, #30, #34, #39, #40, #42, #46, #50, #51, #55, #59, #64, #72, #75, #76,