to love, to have a strong affection for (someone or something) · to love one another · to make love, to have sex
çekim: geçmiş liebte · ortaç geliebt · şimdiki liebt · ulaç liebend
eş: koitieren, kopulieren, Liebe machen, auf Wolke sieben sein, auf Wolke sieben schweben, verliebt
köken: Formally from Middle High German lieben, alteration (based on liep) of rarer liuben (“to make or be dear, to treat in a friendly way”), from Old High German liuben, equivalent to lieb + -en. The singularly attested Old High German liobōn (“to love”) probably remained without continuation; the modern sense was derived in late Middle High German from the noun liebe (“love”) on the model of minnen…
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”).
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’.
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”).
to love, to feel love for (to desire a romantic relation with someone, to be romantically attracted to someone) · to love, to feel love for (to have strong positive, non-romantic feelings for someone)
çekim: geçmiş mīlēju · ortaç mīlēts · şimdiki mīl
köken: From mīls, a dialectal variant of mīļš (“dear, beloved”) (q.v.). This verb was originally in the 2nd conjugation, but it migrated to the 3rd (mīlē > mīl “s/he loves”; mīlē still occurs in some dialects). Cognates include Lithuanian mylė́ti (“to love”), Old Prussian milijt ([mīlīt]), Sudovian miłdat ([mildāt]?).
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ǵews- Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Indo-European *ǵéwstus Proto-Italic *gustus Latin gustusbor. Spanish gustobor. Tagalog gusto Borrowed from Spanish gusto, borrowed from Latin gustus, from Proto-Italic *gustus, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵéwstus, from *ǵews- + *-tus. The ultimate stress pronunciation was due to the word having a closed penultimate syllable.