ליבע
Yiddish
noun
Definitions
- love
Etymology
Derived from German Liebe (love) derived from Middle High German liebe (joy, affection, kindliness, love, favour, the quality of love, pleasure) derived from Old High German lioba derived from Proto-Germanic *leubaz derived from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ- (love, like, hold dear, break off, desire, cut off, care, peel, rind, break, damage).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*lewbʰ-
Gloss
love, like, hold dear, break off, desire, cut off, care, peel, rind, break, damage
Concept
Semantic Field
Kinship
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
好
Emoji
❤️ 🏩 👨❤️👨 👩❤️👨 👩❤️👩 👰♀️ 💋 💌 💑 💒 💓 💕 💖 💗 💘 💝 😍 😘 😚 😻 🤟 🤰 🤱 🫂
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- libido English
- love-hate English
- quodlibet English
- 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
- любезный Russian
- λεπτός Ancient Greek
- *keh₂d- Proto-Indo-European
- *leubh- Proto-Indo-European
- *lewbʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *lewbʰos Proto-Indo-European
- *lewp- Proto-Indo-European
- *lubʰeh₁(ye)- Proto-Indo-European
- *bakiz Proto-Germanic
- *galaubijaną Proto-Germanic
- *laubijaną Proto-Germanic
- *laubą Proto-Germanic
- *leubaz Proto-Germanic
- *lubją Proto-Germanic
- *lubą Proto-Germanic
- *lubō Proto-Germanic
- *lubōną Proto-Germanic
- *uzlaubijaną Proto-Germanic
- leof Old English
- lufian Old English
- lēof Old English
- लुभ् Sanskrit
- loven Middle English
- leyfi Old Norse
- lofa Old Norse
- *ľubiti Proto-Slavic
- *ľuby Proto-Slavic
- *ľubъ Proto-Slavic
- *ľubь Proto-Slavic
- آلفته Persian
- liob Old High German
- lioba Old High German
- liebe Middle High German
- labë Albanian
- 𐌻𐌹𐌿𐍆𐍃 Gothic
- ליבשאַפֿט Yiddish
- *liof Old Dutch
- liof Old Saxon
- *luβēt, *luβēō Proto-Italic
- *laubijā Frankish
- liaupsė Lithuanian
- liāf Old Frisian
- Lieb Pennsylvania German
- Lieb Hunsrik
- łiwa Vilamovian
- ᛚᛖᚢᛒᚨᛉ Proto-Norse