Love Etymology

Akin to Old High German luba love Old English lēof dear Latin lubēre libēre to please. Old English had lufend for male lovers lufestre for women.

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What is the origin of the word Love.

Love etymology. Although its satisfyingly tidy to identify an author many ideas. Libet is also the father of the word libido which is connected to love almost as closely as its roots. History and Etymology for love.

There is a cognate lof in early forms of the Scandinavian languages. Im sure the etymology rambles back much farther than that to a one-syllable word heavy as a heartbeat. Amō is the basic verb meaning I love with the infinitive amare to love as it still is in Italian today.

Also called a word lover or philologos. Middle English from Old English lufu. Meaning one who has a predilection for a thing concept pursuit etc is mid-14c.

9781079452242 Kostenloser Versand für alle Bücher mit Versand und Verkauf duch Amazon. Dating back to the Proto-Indo-European word leubh meaning care or desire it later evolved into Latin with the word lubet which went on further to become libet. When love was incorporated into Old English as lufu it had turned into both a noun to describe deep affection and its offspring verb to.

If we search for the source of the word we find a history vague and confusing stretching back to the Sanskrit lubhyati he desires. Old English lufu is related to Old Frisian luve Old High German luba Gothic lubo. Liebe from PIE leubh- to care desire love cf.

Platonic love as devised by Plato concerns rising through levels of closeness to wisdom and true beauty from carnal attraction to individual bodies to attraction to souls and eventually union with the truth. The word love was once leubh a word used by the Proto-Indo-Europeans approximately five thousand years ago to describe care and desire. Platonic love is a type of love that is not sexual.

The former has been around a long time the latter more like since the seventies. A logophile is a lover of words. It is named after Greek philosopher Plato though the philosopher never used the term himself.

Cognate with Old Frisian luve love Old Saxon luƀa love inclination Old High German luba love inclination also in the compound muotluba mōtluba love and also with Gothic weak feminine -lubō in brōþru-lubō brotherly love the same Germanic base as Old Saxon luƀig willing pious Old English lufen hope Gothic lubains hope and probably also lof n. A related term is logomaniac defined by the Oxford English Dictionary as a person who is obsessively interested in words Etymology. After the Romans died out a recurring theme in these posts for some reason the.

This is the ancient philosophical interpretation. Lubu dear beloved Lith. Liaupse song of praise.

The Indo-European root is also behind Latin lubet meaning it is pleasing and lubido meaning. There doesnt necessarily have to be an identified origin for every phrase. From the Greek word love.

The word love in its noun form has a history you have to love. The word love goes back to the very roots of the English language. Lubet later libet pleases Skt.

As a form of address to a lover from 1911. The Romans used it both in an affectionate sense as well as in a romantic or sexual sense. I suppose that the verb to love on is simply the loosened-up new-agey kids version of the term to dote on someone combined with the common saying of putting your love on someone.

What love means from person to person let alone from century to century is one of the most varied in the English language. Lufu love affection friendliness from PGmc. How can loves spaciousness be conveyed in the narrow confines of one syllable.

Love is an ancient delirium a desire older than civilization with taproots. Etymology like every other ology has a whole lot to do with toe curling. Gift For Etymologist Robbins Del ISBN.

Liufs dear beloved not found elsewhere as a noun except OHG. Lover n one who is enamored person in love early 13c agent noun from love v.

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