PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
ALL DISPUTES ↗One scholarly question. Every attached source. The present editorial state, without pretending the last word has been written.
“Love” is a convenient gloss, but daughter languages point to a field including desire, pleasure, approval, and care.
/lʌv/ · noun · verb
Deep affection; an unusually durable Germanic word whose emotional core survived more than a millennium of sound change.
DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
A citation is not a vote. Each record says whether the work supports, challenges, contradicts, or contextualizes the position—and identifies the exact locus used.
Publishes the reconstructed love root and a comparative semantic field broader than modern romance.
Emotion 16.27Supplies the Germanic evidence that constrains—but does not exhaust—the deeper semantic reconstruction.
Germanic love familyThe reviewed evidence does not yet warrant collapsing the competing or incomplete analyses into one secure answer.