love

English: love

Scots: luve, lufe

Yola: loove

Inherited from Old English lufu, from Proto-West Germanic *lubu, from Proto-Germanic *lubō.

Sexual or romantic desire (in humans and other animals)

Theosis, sanctification, or love as a means to attain it.

One who one loves; a loved individual:
A lover; a sexual or romantic partner.

A personification or embodiment of love.

(Christianity) The Holy Spirit (or less often, God generally).


make

English: make (dialectal)

Scots: make, maik, mak

From Old English maca, ġemaca, from Proto-West Germanic *makō, *gamakō, from Proto-Germanic *makô. Compare macche (“bride, equal”).


cos

English: kiss

Scots: kis

Yola: kesse

From Old English coss, from Proto-West Germanic *koss, from Proto-Germanic *kussaz. Forms with /i/, /u/ and /ɛ/ are influenced by Old English cyssan.


dote

English: dote

A senile individual; an elderly person lacking sound mind.


jalousie

English: jealousy

Scots: jealousy

From Old French jalousie, derived from jalous, from Late Latin zelosus (“full of love and sympathy”), derived from Latin zelus (“zealous”), from Ancient Greek ζῆλος (zêlos, “envy, lust, rivalry”).


douce

English: douce

Scots: douce

Borrowed from Old French dous, dolz, douce, from Latin dulcem.


lovely

English: lovely

Scots: luely

Inherited from Old English luflīċ; equivalent to loven (“to love”) + -ly (adjectival suffix).

af

Friendly, affectionate, loving (providing love)

Many a lovely loke on them he cast.

1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Myllers Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

Lustful, passionate; romantically or sexually charged.


lovely

English: lovely

Inherited from Old English luflīċe; equivalent to loven (“to love”) + -ly (adverbial suffix).

Nicely, affectionately, lovingly (in a loving way)

Eagerly, fondly, enthusiastically; with great passion.

Lustfully, passionately; in a romantically or sexually charged way.

(rare) Courteously; in a well-mannered way.


lovable

English: lovable, loveable


amour

English: amour, amor

Middle Scots: amour

Borrowed from Middle French amour, from Old French amor, from Latin amor.
Sense 3 could be due to the influence of Middle French ameur (“lover”), from Old French ameor, from Latin amātor, but may instead be a semantic development from the first two senses; compare love (“love, lover”).


paramour

English: paramour (obsolete)

Borrowed from Old French par amour (“for love's sake”); equivalent to par- + amour.

bor+

For paramour I loved her fyrst ere thou.

1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Knyghtes Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC:

Is this trouthe said Palomydes / Thenne shall we hastely here of sire Tristram / And as for to say that I loue la Beale Isoud peramours I dare make good that I doo / and that she hath my seruyse aboue alle other ladyes / and shalle haue the terme of my lyf

1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “liij”, in Le Morte Darthur, book X (in Middle English):

In a loving or sexual way; amorously, passionately.


paramour

English: paramour

A paramour; an illicit sexual or romantic partner.

A term of address for someone that one loves.

Sexual, romantic or (less often) spiritual passion.


enamoured

English: enamoured, enamored

Scots: enamoured

Partial calque of Old French enamore, past participle of enamorer; equivalent to (and sometimes influenced by) en- + amour + -ed.


amorous

English: amorous

Scots: amorous

Borrowed from Old French amoros, from Vulgar Latin *amōrōsus; equivalent to amour + -ous.

Amorous, enamoured; in love or lovestruck.


maladie

English: malady

Distress or anguish caused by love; the state of being lovesick.


dotage

English: dotage

Behaviour that is stupid or ill-advised; ridiculousness or insanity:

Ill-thought or fatuitous love or romantic feelings.


amorously

English: amorously

Middle Scots: amorously


loven

enm-verb

loven (third-person singular simple present loveth, present participle lovende, lovynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle loved)

loveth (present singular third-person)
lovende (participle present)
lovynge (participle present)
loved (first-person indicative participle past singular third-person)
loven (infinitive)
to loven (infinitive)
love (infinitive)
love (first-person present singular)
loved (first-person past singular)
lovest (present second-person singular)
lovedest (past second-person singular)
loveth (present singular third-person)
loved (past singular third-person)
love (present singular subjunctive)
loved (past singular subjunctive)
love (imperative present singular)
loven (plural present)
love (plural present)
loveden (past plural)
lovede (past plural)
loveth (imperative plural present)
love (imperative plural present)
lovynge (participle present)
lovende (participle present)
loved (participle past)
yloved (participle past)

English: love

Scots: luve

Inherited from Old English lufian, from Proto-West Germanic *lubōn; equivalent to love (“love”) + -en (infinitival suffix).

af

(euphemistic) To make love; to have sexual intercourse with.


servise

English: service (see there for further descendants)

Scots: service

Borrowed from Old French servise, from Latin servitium. By surface analysis, serven + -ise.

Service (performance of required tasks):

The state of being employed; employment (often as a servant or attendant):


kissen

enm-verb

kissen (third-person singular simple present kisseth, present participle kissende, kissynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle kiste)

kisseth (present singular third-person)
kissende (participle present)
kissynge (participle present)
kiste (first-person indicative participle past singular third-person)
kissen (infinitive)
to kissen (infinitive)
kisse (infinitive)
kisse (first-person present singular)
kiste (first-person past singular)
kissed (first-person past singular)
kissest (present second-person singular)
kist (present second-person singular)
kistest (past second-person singular)
kissedest (past second-person singular)
kisseth (present singular third-person)
kist (present singular third-person)
kiste (past singular third-person)
kissed (past singular third-person)
kisse (present singular subjunctive)
kiste (past singular subjunctive)
kissed (past singular subjunctive)
kisse (imperative present singular)
kissen (plural present)
kisse (plural present)
kisten (past plural)
kiste (past plural)
kisseden (past plural)
kissede (past plural)
kisseth (imperative plural present)
kisse (imperative plural present)
kissynge (participle present)
kissende (participle present)
kist (participle past)
kissed (participle past)
ykist (participle past)
ykissed (participle past)

English: kiss

→ Esperanto: kisi

Scots: kiss

Yola: kisth (preterite)

From Old English cyssan, from Proto-West Germanic *kussijan, from Proto-Germanic *kussijaną; equivalent to cos + -en (infinitival suffix).


servaunt

enm-noun

servaunt (plural servauntes or servauns)

q

dialectal <i class="Latn mention" lang="en">sarvant</i>

English: servant (dialectal sarvant)

Scots: servant, sairvant, servan

From Old French servent, servant, originally the present participle of servir; equivalent to serven + -ant. Doublet of serjaunt.

A lover; one in a romantic relationship with another.


amorette

English: amoret

Borrowed from Middle French amourette, form Old French amorette, from amor (“love”) + -ette (“diminutive suffix”); equivalent to amour + -et.

c. 1370s. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Romaunt of the Rose. 890-2.
For nought y-clad in silk was he,
But al in floures and flourettes,
Y-painted al with amorettes;

(please add an English translation of this quotation)


loveday

English: loveday (now historical)


jelouste

Wrath, angriness; the state of being angry or furious.


jelousnesse

English: jealousness

(rare) Passion; romantic or sexual desire.


jelous

English: jealous

Scots: jealous

/d͡ʒɛːˈluːs/

From Old French jalous, gelus, from Late Latin zelosus.

Loving, passionate; having much love or passion.


dousour

English: douceur (in part)

Borrowed from Old French dolçor; equivalent to douce + -our. Doublet of dulcoure.


hereos

From Medieval Latin, a blend of hērōs (“demigod; hero”), herus (“master of the house”) and Ancient Greek ἔρως (érōs, “love”).

lovesickness: A malady of lovers induced by an excess of the humor melancholy.


lyvere

English: liver

Yola: lewer


macche

English: match (see there for further descendants)

Scots: match

From Old English mæċċa, ġemæċċa, from Proto-West Germanic *makkjō, *gamakkjō. Compare make (“bride, equal”).

A bride or mate; a romantic or sexual partner.


unstedefastnesse

English: unsteadfastness

From unstedefast + -nesse or un- + stedefastnesse.

The state of lacking strength or belief; unsteadfastness, inconstancy, indecisiveness.

(rare) Romantic or marital disloyalty or inconstancy.

(rare) Mutability, variation, inconsistency.


kissynge

English: kissing


loveles

English: loveless


loverede

Inherited from Old English lufrǣden; equivalent to love (“love”) + -rede.


lovere

English: lover

Scots: luver, lover

From loven (“to love”) + -er, replacing Old English lufiend.

A lover; a sexual or (less often) romantic companion.


lovesom

English: lovesome (dialectal loosome, lossom)

Scots: lusome, loesome, loosome

Inherited from Old English lufsum; equivalent to love (“love”) + -som.


lovelyly

English: lovelily

From lovely (adjective) + -ly (adverbial suffix).

af

(uncommon) Nicely, lovelily, pleasantly (in a lovely way)


lovynge

English: loving

Scots: luvin

Inherited from Old English lufung; equivalent to loven (“to love”) + -ing.

(Christianity) Devotion to or adoration of God.

A feeling of love or care:
Devotion to or adoration of God.

A feeling of love or care:
Sexual or romantic love.


lovynge

Middle Scots: loving

Inherited from Old English lofung; equivalent to loven (“to praise”) + -ing.

Praise, commendation; the act or practice of glorifying:

Words for reverencing a deity; a hymn or prayer.