Noun: love
Genitive
Dative
Sample Sentences
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FFoꝛ þı lerne we þe lawe of loue· as owre loꝛde tauȝte / And as seynte Gregoꝛy seıde: foꝛ mannes soule helthe […] (So we learn the law of love, like our Lord taught / and like Saint Gregory said, for the health of people's souls […]) [c. 1378-9, [William Langland], “Paſſus xȷ᷒”, in Lıber de petro plowman (L, B-text), London, published c. 1395, folio 46, verso; republished as Hoyt N. Duggan, Ralph Hanna, editors, Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Laud misc. 581 (The Piers Plowman Electronic Archive; 6), SEENET, 2014, →ISBN:]
Nouns inflected like love
schimeringe,
synger,
serche,
sengle,
snoute,
saucer,
sauter,
sapour,
saphir,
sachel,
sculle,
scrape,
scrowe,
scisme,
sclate,
schyfe,
schyve,
schole,
schere,
schave, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Old English lufu, from Proto-West Germanic *lubu, from Proto-Germanic *lubō. See: Old English Nouns '
lufu', Old English Nouns '
lufu'.
Verbs referencing "love"
English Nouns
love, English Nouns
loafer, English Nouns
loof.
Translations