luv

See also: Luv

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lʌv/

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• Rhymes: -ʌv
• Homophone: love

Noun

luv (countable and uncountable, plural luvs or luvz)

1. Deliberate misspelling of love.

Verb

luv (third-person singular simple present luvz or luvs, present participle luving or luvving, simple past and past participle luvd or luved or luvved)

1. (Internet slang) Deliberate misspelling of love.

   i luv you

   she luvz it

   we luvd it

   you are luving it

Derived terms

Derived terms

• luvd
• luver or luvver
• luving
• luvpig or luvluvpig
• luvz or luvs

See also

• love
• lurv or lurve
• luvvy or luvvie
• wuv

Piedmontese

Etymology

For Vulgar Latin *lūpus instead of the attested Latin lupus (which would have given **lov, compare Ligurian lô, Lombard lov/loff or Venetian lovo), also reflected by Italian lupo, perhaps imitative of the wolf's howling.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lyv/, [lyʊ̯]

Noun

luv m (invariable, feminine luva)

1. wolf

White Hmong

Etymology

From Proto-Hmong *ʔlɛŋᴮ (“short”), and cognate with Proto-Mien *ʔnəŋᴮ (“id”). Due to the n-l alternation between Mienic and Hmongic, a Chinese borrowing seems possible, though no plausible candidate has been found.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lu˧˦/

Adjective

luv

1. short

Verb

luv

1. to lower, shorten, decrease

Derived terms

• siab luv (“short-tempered, impatient”)

 

References

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎^[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 120.