ἀγαπάω

Etymology
A etymology as a compound  (from ) was proposed by Pinault in 1991.

Previous scholars have proposed non-Indo-European comparisons, including:
 * Semantically, offers a match in 🇨🇬, and 🇨🇬.  This Semitic, in turn, is suggested by Saul Levin to be a borrowing since the Hebrew has a variant, also 🇨🇬 deviates with the form , but it must be admonished against this that the root  is well-developed and well-used in Arabic.
 * Friedrich Cornelius believed that was borrowed from the precursor of 🇨🇬, though a better match could be 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, all three containing the  word for “heart” (compare 🇨🇬).

Verb

 * 1)  to show affection for the dead
 * 2)  to treat with affection, be fond of, love
 * 3)  to be beloved
 * 4)  to caress, pet
 * 5)  to be pleased with, take pleasure in, like
 * 6)  to show brotherly love or agape to
 * 1)  to show brotherly love or agape to