Etymology

love-hate

Today it means: Of a relationship: involving feelings of both love and hate, often simultaneously. Full definition →

German Liebe-Hass ← Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ-
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The story

  1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*keh₂d-“anger; hatred”
  2. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*lewbʰ-“to love”
  3. German · calque ofLiebe-Hass
  4. English todaylove-hate

The adjective is a calque of German Liebe-Hass (now more commonly Hassliebe (“love-hate relationship”)), from Liebe (“love; relationship of love”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ- (“to love”)) + Hass (“hate; hatred”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂d- (“anger; hatred”)). The verb is derived from the adjective.

Words from the same roots

Proto-Indo-European*lewbʰ- all →

loveleavelibloblofealderliefesthelluo librorumlovelily

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.