What Love Meant in 4500 B.C.
The Copper Age nomads on the Eurasian steppes might have understood the Beatles.
What is love? Reader, don’t hurt me. Just etymologically. I’ll try.
It may be the slipperiest word in the English language. We are constantly asserting its meaning and renegotiating its definition, especially in pop culture. Is it ? Is it a ? Does it mean ? Is it a or is it a ? Is it more or ? Is it or is it, itself, ? Is it ? Is it the ? Is it ? Or is it just ? Often defined but its true meaning rarely agreed upon, might seem like a lexicographer’s nightmare. How can a word like even have a definition if it means so many contradictory things to so many different people?
