köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃emh₃- Proto-Indo-European *-ti Proto-Indo-European *h₃émh₃ti Proto-Italic *amō Latin amō Old Spanish amar Spanish amar Inherited from Old Spanish amar, from Latin amāre.
to love (romantically or otherwise – same tone as in English) · to make love
çekim: geçmiş älskade · ortaç älskad · ulaç älskande
köken: From Old Swedish ælska, from Old Norse ælska (Compare Old West Norse elska). Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *aliskōną (“to care for, cultivate, cherish”).
to love (to have a strong affection for; to have romantic feelings for) · to love (to care deeply about, to be dedicated to) · to love (to be strongly inclined towards something)
köken: From the same stem as the noun szerelem (“romantic love”) + -et (momentane verb-forming suffix). The stem szer comes from the verbal application of Proto-Uralic *śerɜ (“row, order”) nounverb with the meaning ‘to join; to be linked / related to each other’.
to esteem, prize, love, have regard, to delight in (something) · to set apart by choosing, to single (something) out, to distinguish (something) by selecting it from among others
çekim: ortaç dīlēctus · şimdiki dīligit · ulaç dīligēns
zıt: exsecror, abhorreō, abōminor, dēspuō
köken: From dis- (“apart, asunder”) + legō (“to choose, to take”), or from dis- (“utterly, exceedingly”) + Proto-Italic *legō (“to care”).
to be in love · to make love (to engage in sexual intercourse)
köken: Inherited from Malay bercinta, from Classical Malay bercinta. Equivalent to ber- + cinta. The sense “to make love” is perhaps a semantic loan from English make love.
köken: There are cognates in Tho lects, e.g. Cuối Tân Hợp Ɂiew³⁵ (Nguyễn Hữu Hoành et al., 2022), with the meaning of "beautiful, pretty". Considering its cognates' meaning, the Vietnamese verb is probably a semantic extension of adjectival Chinese 妖 (yêu, “charming”) as seen in yêu kiều (妖嬌, “charming, graceful”).