Eskimo's only have one word for Love. Philosophical ramblings. →[More:] So I was wondering why a word like "Love" which has a multitude of meanings (I Love you as a friend, a parent, a sibling, a lover, a one night stand, a short lived infatuation, an admired colleague, a father figure, a great entertainer) has only the one word.

Love.

I was thinking that maybe to have more than one word for Love would actually cause more societal problems than it would fix. That is, we need to have the same word for ...

"I'm enamoured with you but don't know if I trust you enough to tell you my pin number."

or

"I trust you more than anything but the only thing I feel for you is camaraderie and trust. You are to me an extension of myself and sexually you do not excite me"

because all these different expressions of love need to be mistaken by those who "Love " us as ...

"My passion for you burns with the white hot heat of a million dying suns. I wish to procreate with you and in the meantime I will throw myself under any moving vehicle if it makes your life one iota less difficult"

So, because of the harm it would do to society if Love could be memetically quantified, there can be only one word for Love.

That's my theory anyways.