PERMANENT DISPUTE RECORD
ALL DISPUTES ↗One scholarly question. Every attached source. The present editorial state, without pretending the last word has been written.
Proto-Indo-European did not preserve a single lexeme matching the entire modern English category LOVE.
/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.
The cross-language reflexes support a semantic field rather than a one-to-one prehistoric equivalent of the modern English category.
Emotion 16.27The graph uses a semantic field rather than a one-word equivalence.