Lieb
Pennsylvania German
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
- Liebchen German
- Liebe German
- Liebesbrief German
- Liebesgedicht German
- Liebeslied German
- Liebesspiel German
- Liebestod German
- Liebestöter German
- Liebeswerben German
- Liebling German
- Liebreiz German
- Ordnungsliebe German
- Selbstliebe German
- liebesfähig German
- liebeshungrig German
- liebeskrank German
- liebestoll German
- liebevoll German
- lieblos German
- liebreizend 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
- ליבע Yiddish
- Lieb Hunsrik
- łiwa Vilamovian