A Friend

I was thinking about the word friend and decided to look it up in the dictionary, at dictionary.com. Here is what I found:
Word History: A friend is a lover, literally. The relationship between Latin amīcus "friend" and amō "I love" is clear, as is the relationship between Greek philos "friend" and phileō "I love." In English, though, we have to go back a millennium before we see the verb related to friend. At that time, frēond, the Old English word for "friend," was simply the present participle of the verb frēon, "to love."
It is interesting that the word friend is so closely related to the word love.