köken: Inherited from Middle French amour, from Old French amor, from Latin amor. The regular phonetic development would be ameur, attested in Old French (compare Picard anmeur). There has probably been an influence from Old Occitan.
aile: à tes amours, à vos amours, amour courtois, amour de soi, amour de vacances, amour libre, amour platonique, amour-propre, amoureux, chagrin d'amour
köken: From Arabic عَاشِق (ʕāšiq, “lover”). Cognate with Tatar гашыйк (ğaşıyq), Kazakh ғашық (ğaşyq), Kyrgyz ашык (aşık), Uzbek oshiq, Uyghur ئاشىق (ashiq), Turkish âşık, Turkmen aşyk, etc.
köken: From Middle Dutch lievede, from Old Dutch *lievitha, from Proto-West Germanic *liubiþu. Cognate with West Frisian leafde (“love”), German Low German Leevde, Leevd (“love”), German Liebde, Liebden (archaic form of address).
köken: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *meyHlostis Proto-Balto-Slavic *meilastis Proto-Slavic *milostь Old Polish miłość Polish miłość Inherited from Old Polish miłość, from Proto-Slavic *milostь. By surface analysis, miły + -ość.
köken: From Proto-Finnic *rak'as, cognate with Karelian rakas (“willing, eager, kind, dear”). Traditionally held to derive from Proto-Finno-Ugric *rakka (“near; to approach”) (compare Hungarian rokon (“relative”)), but more recently proposed to be borrowed from Proto-Germanic *frakaz (“greedy, lustful”); the former theory suffers from a lack of cognates in other languages.
Olet minulle rakas.
Nämä olivat minun rakkaimmat leluni, kun olin lapsi.