Old High German liubī reflects the reconstructed Germanic feminine abstract formation *leubīn, with inherited diphthong and later High German reshaping.
MEANING
The abstract meaning remains love, affection, esteem, or pleasure.
CHRONOLOGY
Proto-Germanic prehistory to Old High German records from the tenth century.
SCHOLAR
Rosemarie Lühr
CONFIDENCE
probable — The Old High German form is attested; the Germanic parent is reconstructed from comparative morphology.
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RECORDED EVIDENCE
ATTESTATIONS / FIRST KNOWN USE
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SOURCE-REPORTEDlexical corpus recordestablished
Old High German liubî record reported by the EWA article