luv

luv

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Luwati.

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Luwati terms

• 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 or text messaging) Alternative form of love.

   i luv you

   she luvz it

   we luvd it

   you are luving it

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

From Vulgar Latin *lūpum, from Latin lŭpum.

• IPA^(key): [ˈly(ː)f]

luv

1. alternative form of lov (“wolf”)

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 434: “il lupo” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

From Proto-Kuki-Chin *luu, from Proto-Tibeto-Burman *k-lu

luv

1. head

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

From Vulgar Latin *lūpum, from Latin lŭpum.

• (Turin) IPA^(key): [ˈlʏw]

luv m (invariable, feminine luva)

1. wolf

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 434: “il lupo” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it

From Proto-Hmongic *ʔlɛŋᴮ (“short”), and cognate with Proto-Mienic *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.