Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/willjan
Proto-West Germanic edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *wiljaną.
Verb edit
*willjan[1]
- to want
Inflection edit
*wili/*wilī, *weldā
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Descendants edit
- Old English: willan, wyllan
- Old Frisian: willa, wella
- Old Saxon: willian
- Old Dutch: willen
- Old High German: wellen, willen; wollen, wollen (conflated with *waljaną)
References edit
- ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 109: “*wilʲlʲan”