ליבע
Yiddish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from German Liebe (“love”), from Middle High German liebe (“joy, affection, kindliness”), from Old High German lioba, liobī, derived from the adjective liob (whence Yiddish ליב (lib)), from Proto-Germanic *leubaz, from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ- (“love, care, desire”). The sense “(romantic) love” developed only in early modern German, replacing older Minne; the noun as such is absent from many German dialects. The final -e in Yiddish also attests to the non-native origin.
Noun
[edit]ליבע • (libe) f, plural ליבעס (libes)