You can think of loving as love that has moved out of the heart and into the hands. Someone is not only feeling warm about you; they are doing something about it — holding you, making your tea, fixing the thing you broke. Everything this word does grows from that one picture of love showing up in action: love aimed at a person, love aimed at a thing someone is making, and love named as the thing itself.
From the word’s history
The source records loving as love + -ing, inherited from Middle English lovyng(e) and Old English lufung. The -ing keeps the verb's action inside the word, which fits a word that is about love being done rather than only felt.
資料把 loving 記成 love 加 -ing，來自中古英文 lovyng(e)、古英文 lufung。-ing 把動詞的動作感留在字裡面。這正好對上它現在的用法：愛是被做出來的，不只是被感覺到的。
Wiktionary entry for loving (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:910877378): 'Inherited from Middle English lovyng(e) (love), inherited from Old English lufung. By surface analysis, love + -ing.'
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原始詞典資料10 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Lovingname/ˈlʌvɪŋ/
- 1
A surname.
- 2
A placename
- 3
A placename
- 4
A placename
lovingnoun/ˈlʌv.ɪŋ/
- 1
The action of the verb to love.
- all natural lovings and longings
lovingadj/ˈlʌv.ɪŋ/
- 1
Expressing a large amount of love to other people; affectionate.
- his loving wife, her loving husband
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。