Reconstruction:Proto-Italic/amāō

Etymology
Possibly from, , a lost nursery-word of the -type. Compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Alternatively, Martin Kümmel and Michiel De Vaan suggest a derivation from via “to take hold”, applying a semantic shift “to take by the hand” > “to regard as a friend” > “to love, to be fond of”.

Verb

 * 1) to love

Descendants

 * (3nd, plu, act, perf)
 * (3nd, plu, act, perf)