lufung

Old English

Etymology

By surface analysis, lufian +‎ -ung

Noun

lufung f

1. love, the act of loving

Declension

Strong ō-stem:

	singular	plural
nominative	lufung	—
accusative	lufunge	—
genitive	lufunge	—
dative	lufunge	—

Descendants

• Middle English: lovynge, luffenge, lofynge, loovyng, lovengge, lovyng, lufinge, lufing (Northern)
  • English: loving
  • Scots: luvin

References

• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “lufung”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary‎^[1], 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.