NODE / 0291attestedMiddle High German

liebe

favor, affection, love

DATE: Middle High German
SENSE: love abstract
FAMILY: Indo-European / West Germanic
CANONICAL KEY: node:31:liebe:attested:sense:love-abstract

Duden identifies Middle High German liebe as the immediate historical stage.

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GO DEEPERinheritanceestablished

Old High German · Old High German, attested from the tenth century · love abstract

liubī

love, affection, esteem, pleasure, favor

SOUND: Old High German liubī develops into Middle High German liebe through regular High German vowel and ending development.
MEANING: Love, favor, pleasure, and affection remain overlapping parts of the semantic field.
CHRONOLOGY: Old High German to Middle High German.
SCHOLAR: Dudenredaktion · Rosemarie Lühr
CONFIDENCE: established — Both historical stages and their continuity are directly reported.

Liebe — Rechtschreibung, Bedeutung, Definition, HerkunftsupportsHerkunft: mittelhochdeutsch liebe, althochdeutsch liubī

Publishes the Old-to-Middle-to-modern sequence.

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liuben; giliuben; liubi; liubî — Etymologisches Wörterbuch des AlthochdeutschensupportsBand V, Spalte 1387, liubî paragraph

Documents Old High German liubî, Middle High German liebe, and Modern German Liebe.

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DIRECT DESCENDANT EDGES

THE NEXT HISTORICAL STEP

DESCENDANThistorical continuationestablished

German · Present-day German · love abstract

Liebe

love; strong affection; a beloved person

SOUND: Middle High German liebe continues into modern German Liebe with capitalization of the noun and standardization of spelling and pronunciation.
MEANING: The inherited abstract noun remains centered on affection while broadening across personal, religious, and object-directed uses.
CHRONOLOGY: Middle High German to present-day German.
SCHOLAR: Dudenredaktion
CONFIDENCE: established — The immediate Middle High German stage is explicit in the modern dictionary.

Liebe — Rechtschreibung, Bedeutung, Definition, HerkunftsupportsHerkunft: mittelhochdeutsch liebe; modern noun senses

Identifies the immediate Middle High German source and the continuing modern noun.

ORIGINAL ↗

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TRANSITIVE DESCENDANT CLOSURE

EVERY REVIEWED BRANCH FROM HERE

This is the complete downstream closure currently supported by the canonical graph. Every displayed step is a real reviewed edge with its own sound claim, meaning claim, scholar, confidence, and citations.

UNIQUE DESCENDANT NODES: 1
REVIEWED EDGES: 1
DEEPEST PATH: 1
MODERN DOSSIERS REACHED: 1

Liebe1 connected node

HISTORICAL STEP 011 EDGE

STEP 01historical continuationestablished

Middle High Germanliebe→German · Present-day GermanLiebelove; strong affection; a beloved person

SOUND: Middle High German liebe continues into modern German Liebe with capitalization of the noun and standardization of spelling and pronunciation.
MEANING: The inherited abstract noun remains centered on affection while broadening across personal, religious, and object-directed uses.

Dudenredaktion1 CITATIONEDGE 282 ↗

Liebe — Rechtschreibung, Bedeutung, Definition, Herkunft · Herkunft: mittelhochdeutsch liebe; modern noun senses ↗

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02Liebeliebe · established