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Indo-European Lexicon: *leubh-

AUTHOR / EDITOR
Linguistics Research Center
YEAR
Not recorded
PUBLISHER
University of Texas at Austin
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8CANONICAL EDGES
0WITNESSES
3COMPARISONS
0CONTEXT LINKS
1RANKED REVEALS
2DISPUTES
5JOURNEY STAGES
5WORD DOSSIERS
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CONTRARIAN TRUTH CLAIMS

RANKED REVEALS THAT CITE THIS SOURCE

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RANK 169GRADE Asupports

Romance is not the whole prehistory of love.

The reconstructed love family spans a wider comparative field of desire, care, pleasure, and longing. Modern romantic love is one powerful branch, not a one-word prehistoric definition.

*lewbʰ-

*lewbʰ- → *lubō → *lubu → lufu → love / luve → love

Emotion 16.27

Publishes the reconstructed love root and a comparative semantic field broader than modern romance.

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SCHOLARLY DISAGREEMENT

DISPUTE POSITIONS THAT CITE THIS SOURCE

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opensupportsprobable

How wide was the PIE meaning?

“Love” is a convenient gloss, but daughter languages point to a field including desire, pleasure, approval, and care.

Emotion 16.27

Publishes the reconstructed love root and a comparative semantic field broader than modern romance.

resolvedsupportsestablished

One word for one feeling?

Proto-Indo-European did not preserve a single lexeme matching the entire modern English category LOVE.

Emotion 16.27

The cross-language reflexes support a semantic field rather than a one-to-one prehistoric equivalent of the modern English category.

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CANONICAL RELATIONSHIP CLAIMS

EDGES THAT CITE THIS SOURCE

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EDGE 5supportsprobable

*lubō → *lewbʰ-

Proto-Germanic → Proto-Indo-European · inheritance

SOUND
Germanic reflects the inherited root with regular treatment of PIE *bʰ and a different vowel grade.
MEANING
Desire, approval, care, and affection overlap across daughter languages.
SCHOLAR / EDITOR
Pokorny · Mallory & Adams
Emotion 16.27

PIE root and reflexes.

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EDGE 6supportsboundary

*lewbʰ- → UNKNOWN

Proto-Indo-European → Beyond secure reconstruction · knowledge boundary

SOUND
The comparative method has reached its evidentiary horizon.
MEANING
Anything deeper would exceed the securely recoverable record.
SCHOLAR / EDITOR
Open research boundary
Method statement

Comparative-method boundary.

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EDGE 285contextprobable

*leubīn → *lewbʰ-

Proto-Germanic → Proto-Indo-European · derivation

SOUND
Germanic *leubīn is an abstract-noun formation within the *lewbʰ- desire-and-care family.
MEANING
A broad root meaning care for, desire, or love yields a noun for affection and pleasure.
SCHOLAR / EDITOR
Rosemarie Lühr · Guus Kroonen · University of Texas LRC
Pokorny etymon leubh- and Indo-European reflex table

Publishes the reconstructed cross-branch root and semantic field.

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EDGE 286contextboundary

*lewbʰ- → UNKNOWN

Proto-Indo-European → Beyond secure reconstruction · knowledge boundary

SOUND
No older form is promoted beyond the reviewed *lewbʰ- reconstruction.
MEANING
The German love-noun history reaches the current secure evidence horizon.
SCHOLAR / EDITOR
SET-U editorial boundary
Emotion 16.27, reconstructed root leubh-

Defines the reviewed reconstruction at which the dossier stops.

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EDGE 289supportsprobable

*leubaz → *lewbʰ-

Proto-Germanic → Proto-Indo-European · inheritance

SOUND
Proto-Germanic *leubaz continues the *lewbʰ- family with Germanic *b corresponding to Indo-European *bʰ and adjective-stem formation.
MEANING
A broad field of caring, desiring, and loving develops the adjective sense dear, beloved, or pleasing.
SCHOLAR / EDITOR
Guus Kroonen · University of Texas LRC
Pokorny etymon leubh- and Indo-European reflex table

Places the Germanic adjective within the wider reconstructed desire-and-care family.

OPEN THE PERMANENT CLAIM ↗
EDGE 290contextboundary

*lewbʰ- → UNKNOWN

Proto-Indo-European → Beyond secure reconstruction · knowledge boundary

SOUND
No older form is promoted beyond the reviewed *lewbʰ- reconstruction.
MEANING
The Dutch adjective history reaches the current secure evidence horizon.
SCHOLAR / EDITOR
SET-U editorial boundary
Emotion 16.27, reconstructed root leubh-

Defines the reviewed reconstruction at which the dossier stops.

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EDGE 293contextboundary

*lewbʰ- → UNKNOWN

Proto-Indo-European → Beyond secure reconstruction · knowledge boundary

SOUND
No older form is promoted beyond the reviewed *lewbʰ- reconstruction.
MEANING
The Gothic adjective history reaches the current secure evidence horizon.
SCHOLAR / EDITOR
SET-U editorial boundary
Emotion 16.27, reconstructed root leubh-

Defines the reviewed reconstruction at which the dossier stops.

OPEN THE PERMANENT CLAIM ↗
EDGE 298contextboundary

*lewbʰ- → UNKNOWN

Proto-Indo-European → Beyond secure reconstruction · knowledge boundary

SOUND
No older form is promoted beyond the reviewed *lewbʰ- reconstruction.
MEANING
The German adjective history reaches the current secure evidence horizon.
SCHOLAR / EDITOR
SET-U editorial boundary
Emotion 16.27, reconstructed root leubh-

Defines the reviewed reconstruction at which the dossier stops.

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LEXICAL ATTESTATIONS

WITNESSES REPORTED BY THIS SOURCE

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No lexical witness currently cites this source.
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COMPARATIVE EVIDENCE

COGNATES, DESCENDANTS, AND RELATIVES

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love

libet

Latin

distant PIE cognate

love

lubhyati

Sanskrit

distant PIE cognate

love

любо (ljubo)

Slavic

distant PIE cognate

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GEOGRAPHIC AND TEMPORAL CLAIMS

JOURNEY STAGES THAT CITE THIS SOURCE

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stage 1supports

Pontic–Caspian horizon

Publishes reconstructed leubh- “to love, like, care for” and the cross-branch reflexes that motivate it; it does not localize the prehistoric speech community.

love→Proto-Indo-European prehistory
Pokorny Etymon leubh- and Indo-European reflex table · approximate
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NON-GENEALOGICAL CONNECTIONS

HISTORICAL CONTEXT, KEPT SEPARATE

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No non-genealogical context link currently cites this source.
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WORD-FAMILY REUSE

DOSSIERS THAT DEPEND ON THIS SOURCE

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lieb3 CLAIM LINKS↗Liebe3 CLAIM LINKS↗lief3 CLAIM LINKS↗liufs3 CLAIM LINKS↗love9 CLAIM LINKS↗

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