From Latin dea .
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Lewis’s Elementary Latin Dictionary
1890 American Book Company edition; pinned Perseus XML digitizationdea
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From English there .
From Old Latin deivā , from Proto-Italic * deiwā .
From Latin dea .
From Latin dea .
Inherited from Old High German dū , from Proto-West Germanic * þū , from Proto-Germanic * þū , from Proto-Indo-European * túh₂ .
From Old Frisian dād , from Proto-Germanic * daudaz .
From Old Frisian dāth , from Proto-West Germanic * dauþu , from Proto-Germanic * dauþuz .
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alpaca
An English animal and fiber word borrowed through Spanish from Aymara allpaqa / allphaqa.
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checkmate
An inescapable chess defeat and, figuratively, complete thwarting; a compound transmitted through French, Arabic, and Persian chess language.
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dialogue
Conversation, represented speech, or an exchange of ideas; inherited through medieval French and Latin from a Greek speaking-family.
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fiend
An inherited English noun whose earliest recorded sense was enemy or foe, not demon. Old English fēond belonged to a Germanic lexicalized one-who-hates formation; Middle English fẹ̄nd preserved enemy, Satan, demon, possession, and monster senses across extensive spelling variation; modern fiend continues the same English line. OED’s revised 2026 entry marks the literal enemy sense obsolete after the medieval record, explains the Devil as the ultimate Enemy, and documents long-versus-short vowel competition before the long vowel became dominant by the eighteenth century. The Middle English Dictionary independently exposes 188 quotations across eight senses without claiming a complete corpus.
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hatred
A Middle English formation built from hate plus the fossilized native condition suffix -rede / -reden, with a secure Germanic hate family but a semantically difficult and explicitly disputed deeper Indo-European proposal.
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lieb
The German adjective for dear, beloved, kind, or welcome, inherited through Middle High German liep and Old High German liob from the Germanic adjective branch also represented by Dutch lief and Gothic liufs.
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lief
The Dutch adjective for dear, sweet, or kind and its substantivized use for a beloved person, inherited through the Germanic adjective branch.
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liufs
The normalized Gothic adjective meaning dear or beloved, preserved through inflected manuscript forms including liuba and liubans.
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llama
An English animal name borrowed through Spanish from Quechua llama.
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Proto-Germanic / Indo-European
*leubaz
dear, beloved, pleasing
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Present-Day English / Indo-European
dialogue
conversation, represented speech, or exchange of ideas
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- 13th century–today
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German / Indo-European
lieb
dear, beloved, kind, pleasant, welcome
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Dutch / Indo-European
lief
dear, sweet, kind; substantivized, a beloved person
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Middle Dutch / Indo-European
lief
dear, beloved, pleasant
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Middle High German / Indo-European
liep
dear, beloved, pleasing
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Old High German / Indo-European
liob
dear, beloved, pleasing
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Gothic / Indo-European
liufs
dear, beloved
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- Gothic biblical tradition
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Spanish / Indo-European
llama
llama; Andean camelid
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- colonial and modern Spanish
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SCHOLARLY DISPUTES / 2
openprobableposition text
Does checkmate literally mean the king is dead?
That is a longstanding Arabic analysis, but Merriam-Webster and Encyclopaedia Iranica favor a Persian loan meaning left, helpless, broken, or paralyzed.
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Is German lieb a shortened form of Liebe?
No. The adjective descends through Middle High German liep and Old High German liob. The noun Liebe continues a related abstract-noun formation analyzed as deadjectival within the older family.
CONTRARIAN TRUTHS / 4
RANK 10GRADE Acontrarian claim
Andean neighbors need not be linguistic cousins.
Alpaca comes from Aymara while llama comes from Quechua: the words travel through Spanish from different families.
RANK 156GRADE Aranked reveal
To regulate is to bring under a straightedge’s rule.
The verb passes through regulātus and regulāre to Latin rēgula. Governance and technical adjustment share the older idea of directing by rule.
RANK 181GRADE A-contrarian claim
The king is not securely dead.
The familiar “shāh māt = the king died” translation matches Arabic morphology, but the better-supported historical analysis treats māt as a Persian loan meaning helpless, broken, or at a loss.
RANK 199GRADE A-ranked reveal
Dutch lief is love’s adjective cousin, not its child.
Dutch lief belongs with Gothic liufs and German lieb in the inherited dear-or-beloved adjective branch. English love is a separate noun route in the same deeper family.
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