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Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Linguistically speaking


Origin


Old English lufu, of Germanic origin; from an Indo-European root shared by Sanskrit lubhyati 'desires', Latin libet 'it is pleasing', libido 'desire', also by leave2 and lief.

How love began, according to the OED

Just say the word



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