luv
See also: Luv
English
editPronunciation
editNoun
editluv (countable and uncountable, plural luvs or luvz)
- Deliberate misspelling of love.
Verb
editluv (third-person singular simple present luvz or luvs, present participle luving or luvving, simple past and past participle luvd or luved or luvved)
Derived terms
editSee also
editPiedmontese
editEtymology
editFor 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
editNoun
editluv m (invariable, feminine luva)
White Hmong
editEtymology
editFrom 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.[1]
Pronunciation
editAdjective
editluv
Verb
editluv
Derived terms
edit- siab luv (“short-tempered, impatient”)
References
edit- Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary[1], SEAP Publications, →ISBN, page 120.
- ^ Ratliff, Martha (2010) Hmong-Mien language history (Studies in Language Change; 8), Camberra, Australia: Pacific Linguistics, →ISBN, page 225; 276.
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