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This 4 page paper attempts to define the word “love” as well as the concept. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Well begin with the etiology of the word and take it from there. "Love" has a number of roots, as this definition shows: "O.E. lufu "love, affection, friendliness," from P.Gmc.
*lubo (cf. O.Fris. liaf, Ger. lieb, Goth. liufs "dear, beloved;" not found elsewhere as a noun, except O.H.G. luba, Ger. Liebe), from PIE *leubh- "to care, desire, love" (cf. L.
lubet, later libet "pleases;" Skt. lubhyati "desires;" O.C.S. lubu "dear, beloved;" Lith. liaupse "song of praise"). The abbreviations stand for different languages: "O.E." is Old English; "P.Gmc." is proto-Germanic; "O.Fris."
is Old Friesian; "Ger." is German; "Goth." is Gothic, a Germanic language now extinct; "O.H.G." is Old High German, the ancestor of modern German; "PIE" is "Proto-Indo-European, the hypothetical reconstructed
ancestral language of the Indo-European family"; "L" of course is classical Latin; "Skt." is Sanskrit, and "O.C.S." is "Old Church Slavonic, the earliest attested Slavic language, known from
9c" (Harper). A quick conclusion here is that the word "love" comes from European languages, not Asian. The word took on different meaning at different times, as well. A
few examples: the word "love" referring to a person, as in "my love," dates from 1225; the use of the word in a tennis match indicating no score goes back
to 1742, and comes from the idea of "playing for love, i.e., for nothing" (Harper). The phrase "make love" goes back to 1580 in the sense of "pay amorous attention
to"; as a euphemism for sex, its much more recent, dating only to 1950, at least according to Harper. Finally, to be in "love" with someone goes back to 1508
(Harper). Defining the word could take a book, so well settle for the first definition in Websters Dictionary, which is: "a deep and tender feeling of affection for or attachment
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