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CHILD / LATER FORM / reconstructedProto-Germanic · Proto-Germanic reconstruction · love abstract

*leubīn

love; affection as an abstract noun

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PARENT / EARLIER FORM / reconstructedProto-Indo-European · c. 4500–2500 BCE

*lewbʰ-

to love, desire, care for

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THE COMPLETE RELATIONSHIP

EVERY FIELD, NOT A FAIRY TALE

SOUND CHANGE

Germanic *leubīn is an abstract-noun formation within the *lewbʰ- desire-and-care family.

SEMANTIC CHANGE

A broad root meaning care for, desire, or love yields a noun for affection and pleasure.

CHRONOLOGY

Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic prehistory.

SCHOLAR / EDITORIAL AUTHORITY

Rosemarie Lühr · Guus Kroonen · University of Texas LRC

CONFIDENCE

probable — The morphological comparison is published, but the parent root is reconstructed rather than attested.

EDITORIAL STATUS

reviewed

CITATION REGISTER

SOURCES ON THIS EDGE

S01

Indo-European Lexicon: *leubh-Pokorny etymon leubh- and Indo-European reflex table

Publishes the reconstructed cross-branch root and semantic field.

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S02

liuben; giliuben; liubi; liubî — Etymologisches Wörterbuch des AlthochdeutschenBand V, Spalte 1387, liubî: deadjectival abstract formation and Indo-European *leubh- comparison

Connects the Germanic abstract noun to the deeper desire-and-care family.

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EDITORIAL REUSE

WHERE THIS CLAIM APPEARS

RELATION / 271Liebe

*leubīn → *lewbʰ-

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