luv

• IPA^(key): /lʌv/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ʌv
• Homophone: love

luv (countable and uncountable, plural luvs or luvz)

1. Deliberate misspelling of love.

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

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

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *luu

luv

1. head

• Kenneth VanBik (2009) Proto-Kuki-Chin: A Reconstructed Ancestor of the Kuki-Chin Languages (STEDT Monograph Series), volume 8, →ISBN

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

• IPA^(key): /lyv/, [lyʊ̯]

luv m (invariable, feminine luva)

1. wolf

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.^[1]

• IPA^(key): /lu˧˦/

luv

1. short

luv

1. to lower, shorten, decrease

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