The story
- Polabian · derived fromLiubice“lovely”
- English todayLubeck
* As a Dutch and North/Low German surname, from the city of Lübeck in Schleswig-Holstein. * As a Slovak surname, from Ľubek, pet form of various names like Ľubomir formed from ľúbiť (“to love”). Similarly also from Polabian Liubice (“lovely”), cognate with Polish luby + -ica.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.