Old High German liob reflects the West Germanic continuation of reconstructed *leubaz, with the inherited diphthong and consonant represented in the daughter form.
MEANING
The adjective preserves the sense dear, beloved, or pleasing.
CHRONOLOGY
Proto-Germanic prehistory to the Old High German textual period.
SCHOLAR
Dudenredaktion · Guus Kroonen
CONFIDENCE
probable — The Old High German form is attested; its Proto-Germanic parent and precise phonological staging are comparative reconstructions.
Old High German liob develops into Middle High German liep with the inherited diphthong and High German obstruent pattern reflected in the historical spellings.
MEANING
The adjective remains centered on what is dear, beloved, or pleasing.
CHRONOLOGY
Old High German to Middle High German.
SCHOLAR
Dudenredaktion
CONFIDENCE
established — Duden publishes the immediate Old High German and Middle High German sequence.
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Old High German liob develops into Middle High German liep with the inherited diphthong and High German obstruent pattern reflected in the historical spellings.
MEANING
The adjective remains centered on what is dear, beloved, or pleasing.
“Every” means every descendant in the reviewed SET-U graph. It does not convert missing scholarship or missing ingestion into a claim of historical completeness. The coverage ledger remains the honest denominator.
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RECORDED EVIDENCE
ATTESTATIONS / FIRST KNOWN USE
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SOURCE-REPORTEDlexical corpus recordestablished
Old High German historical-form record for liob reported by Duden