lob
loben Vb.
- ‘(vor anderen) anerkennend hervorheben, rühmen’,
- ahd. lobōn, lobēn ‘anerkennen, rühmen, verherrlichen, preisen’ (8. Jh.),
- mhd. loben, auch ‘feierlich versprechen, geloben’,
- asächs. loƀon ‘preisen’,
- mnd. mnl. lōven,
- nl. loven,
- aengl. lofian,
- anord. lofa,
- swed. lova,
- germ. *lubōn ‘preisen, rühmen’.
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- vgl. Lob, geloben
Proto-West Germanic *lob, from Proto-Germanic *lubą (“praise, permission”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewbʰ- (“to love, like”) (and thence a distant cognate of English love). Cognate with Scots lofe (“an offer”), North Frisian lof (“praise”), Dutch lof (“praise, glory, commendation”), German Lob (“praise, commendation, tribute”), Icelandic lof (“praise”). For semantic development, perhaps compare etymology of praise and its senses.