leubh-

    leubh-

    English meaning: to care for, love

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “gern haben, begehren; lieb”, partly with Entwicklung von “gern haben” to “gutheißen, loben”, in Gmc. also von “Liebe” to “Zutrauen, reliance, Glaube”

    Material: O.Ind. lúbhyati “empfindet heftiges desire”, lōbhá yati “ excited, aroused desire” (formal = Gmc.*lauƀjan , das but denominative to *lauƀa-, O.E. lēaf), lōbha- m. “desire, greed, lust” (= O.E. lēaf etc.), lubdhá- “ greedy, ausschweifend; verfũhrt” (= Gk. λυπτά); Gk. λυπτά ἑταίρα, πόρνη Hes.; Alb. laps “wũnsche, begehre”, probably also Tosc lumë, Gheg lum “lucky, blessed “, lumnī “fame, Seligkeit” (participle *lubh-no- actually “was man gern hat, lobt”); Lat. libet, older lubet, -ēre, -uit, -itum est “es beliebt, is compliant”, lubens, libens “gern, willing”, lubīdo, libīdo “ eagerness “; Osc. loufir “vel” (compare abg ĺubo - ĺubo “vel - vel”); Goth. liufs, O.Ice. liūfr, O.H.G. liob, O.E. lēof “lieb” (= O.Bulg. ĺubъ); therefrom derived *liubēn “lieb sein, gefallen” in O.E. lēofian, O.H.G. M.H.G. liuben; *liubjan in O.E. ge-lūfan, O.H.G. (ga)liuben, originally “lieb make”; Goth. galaufs “begehrenswert, schätzbar, wertvoll”; O.E. lēaf “Erlaubnis”, O.H.G. urloub (and urlub) “Urlaub”; Goth. Denom. galaubjan “believe”, us-laubjan “allow”, O.Ice. leyfa (Denom.) “allow; praise, laud”; O.H.G. gilouben “believe”, irlouben “allow”, O.E. līefan, ü-líefan “allow”, gelīefan “believe”; O.Ice. lof n. “Lob, Erlaubnis”, O.E. lof n. “Lob, Preis”, O.H.G. lob n. ds. are Postverbalia to O.Ice. lofa “ praise, gestatten”, O.H.G. lobōn (Denom.) “praise, laud, praise, bewilligen, promise “, Ger. loben, geloben, verloben; Goth. lubains “hope”; O.E. lufu, O.H.G. lupa f. “love”, therefrom *lubōn in O.E. lufian, O.H.G. lubōn “lieben”, O.H.G. gilubida “ profession, declaration “; Lith. (due to eines es-stem *leubhes-) liaupse ̃ “Lobpreisung”, liáupsinti “lobpreisen”; O.Bulg. ĺubъ “lieb” (Russ. ĺúbyj etc.), whereof ĺubiti “lieben”, ĺuby “love” (etc.). maybe Alb. lyp, lip “beg, like, want”

    References: WP. II 419, WH. I 793 f., Wissmann Postverbalia 37 ff., 80 f.