Lieb

Hunsrik

/liːb/

noun

Definitions

love

Etymology

Inherited from Middle High German liebe (joy, affection, kindliness, love, favour, the quality of love, pleasure) inherited from Old High German liob inherited from Proto-Germanic *leubą derived from Proto-Indo-European *lubʰ- (enjoy, long for).

Origin

Proto-Indo-European

*lubʰ-

Gloss

enjoy, long for

Timeline

Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

Liebe German
*lubʰ- Proto-Indo-European
*leubaz Proto-Germanic
*leubn- Proto-Germanic
*leubą Proto-Germanic
liob Old High German
lioba Old High German
liebe Middle High German
liep Middle High German
Lieb Pennsylvania German
łiwa Vilamovian