Phrase for love or money "for anything" is attested from 1580s.
The sense "no score" (in tennis, etc.) is 1742, from the notion of playing for love (1670s), that is, for no stakes. Meaning "a beloved person" is from early 13c.
The weakened sense "liking, fondness" was in Old English. The Germanic words are from PIE root *leubh- "to care, desire, love." Old English lufu "feeling of love romantic sexual attraction affection friendliness the love of God Love as an abstraction or personification," from Proto-Germanic *lubo (source also of Old High German liubi "joy," German Liebe "love " Old Norse, Old Frisian, Dutch lof German Lob "praise " Old Saxon liof, Old Frisian liaf, Dutch lief, Old High German liob, German lieb, Gothic liufs "dear, beloved").
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