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MODERN ENTRY POINTS
WORD DOSSIERS
nounhistorical form
Liebe
The German noun for love, inherited through Middle and Old High German and a Germanic abstract-noun formation distinct from the immediate noun ancestry of English love.
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love
Deep affection; an unusually durable Germanic word whose emotional core survived more than a millennium of sound change.
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HISTORICAL FORMS
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Proto-Germanic / Indo-European
*leubīn
love; affection as an abstract noun
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German / Indo-European
Liebe
love; strong affection; a beloved person
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Middle English / Indo-European
kīnd(e)
natural, innate, fitting, proper, native, affectionate, loving, or benevolent
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Middle High German / Indo-European
liebe
favor, affection, love
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Old High German / Indo-European
liubī
love, affection, esteem, pleasure, favor
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- Old High German, attested from the tenth century
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Present-Day English / Indo-European
love
deep affection; to feel deep affection
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- c. 1500–today
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Middle English / Indo-European
love / luve
love, affection, beloved person
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- c. 1150–1500
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Old English / Indo-European
lufu
love, affection, friendliness
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- before 725–c. 1150
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CLAIMS & DISPUTES
SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 1
resolvedestablishedposition text
Did kind always mean benevolent or nice?
No. Old English gecynde is natural, native, innate, fitting, proper, or inherited by birth. Middle English evidence adds affectionate and benevolent uses, making modern moral kindness a semantic development rather than the original whole meaning.
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FIRST USES & HISTORICAL OBJECTS
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