love

[robbibobbi62]

   where did the word "love" originate from?

[bernardo]

Old English lufu from Germanic

[IndieSinger]

Indeed, as bernardo (*GAB*!) suggests, it's from lufu which, in Old English, meant love, affection, friendliness, that kind of idea, and came from the Old High Germanic luba, lubo and lub� which gave rise to the modern-day German word Lieb, meaning... well, love.

[Peter Pedant]

but where did they get it from?

it clearly cannot come from amor which give amour and amore. there are a group of English words which do not have the common indo european root, I think dog plough and sheep may be some of them, is lurve another?

[robbibobbi62]

   Thank you all for your input. I am trying to do an essay on the definition of love. As you can tell, I am very rusty at this college thing!.....:)