The answer, in fact, sits above and across those words: Proto-Indo-European. This is the great original language from which English, among many other tongues, both alive and dead, derives.

“They are the best candidate for the population that spoke Proto-Indo-European.” Not everyone is convinced though. Some linguists, like Paul Heggarty of Pontifical Catholic University of ...

[2] Its ultimate origin is thought to be the Proto-Indo-European root leubh-, meaning “to care, desire, love” – the same source as for words such as the Sanskrit lubhyati, meaning “desires ...