Is Love A Verb or a Noun?

While walking with an old friend this evening, he said something quite striking: "I have always thought that love was more of a verb than a noun". That got me thinking about my own (admittedly cynical) view of love. Could this "love" be the most misunderstood verb in the English language? Is the majority of Hollywood causing irreparable damage to the psyche of the masses by trying to pound this heart shaped little peg into the little square hole that is a noun?
Let us begin our inquiry with the treatment of "love" in the English language. (If I were proficient in any other language I would certainly include it in this discussion but alas, monolingual it must be).
I believe the most common usage of this particular word is as part of the prepositional phrase "in love". Typically, a prepositional phrase describes a place or direction. (i.e. under the couch, in the dining room, etc) Feelings are not usually used as destination or location but as always there are exceptions such as "in a depression" or in "a funk". In both of these usages of feelings in a prepositional phrase however, the 'a' before the final word grammatically indicates it as a noun. (for those of you who don't remember, a noun is defined as a person place or thing) Whether or not depression or funk count as nouns or not is a matter for a different discussion. The fact remains that grammatically, they are indicated as nouns. Thereby, I believe it is reasonable to conclude that the word "love" in this instance is the noun of the sentence (aka there is not implied noun such as in "go run" where the implied noun is "you") So, the English language identifies "love" as either a person, place, or thing.
The second (or arguably equally popular) usage of the word "love" is in the verb form. "I love you" or "he loves blank" are common examples. It would appear that the English language also identifies "love" as an action.
For many, these grammatical inquiries may not be exactly earth-shattering. "of course," one might say "love is a thing....that you do. Its both" To those with that response, I would ask, "how many things do you do that aren't verbs?" I am by no means a grammatical wizard (as I'm sure you can tell by this post) but I have racked my brain and the answer I have arrived at is zero. This is not to commit a logical fallacy by saying that this argument proves that love is a verb or that it can't be both a noun and a verb but I would say that it could give one a reason to re-evaluate how one feels about "love".

To be continued.....