Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/wunskijaną

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

Etymology

From *wunskaz (“wish”) +‎ *-janą or *wunskō (“wish”) +‎ *-janą.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwun.ski.jɑ.nɑ̃/

Verb

*wunskijaną

1. to wish, to desire

Inflection

Conjugation of *wunskijaną (weak class 1)

	active voice				passive voice
present tense	indicative	subjunctive	imperative		indicative	subjunctive
1st singular	*wunskijō	*wunskijaų	—		*wunskijai	?
2nd singular	*wunskīsi	*wunskijais	*wunskī		*wunskijasai	*wunskijaisau
3rd singular	*wunskīþi	*wunskijai	*wunskijaþau		*wunskijaþai	*wunskijaiþau
1st dual	*wunskijōs	*wunskijaiw	—		—	—
2nd dual	*wunskijaþiz	*wunskijaiþiz	*wunskijaþiz		—	—
1st plural	*wunskijamaz	*wunskijaim	—		*wunskijanþai	*wunskijainþau
2nd plural	*wunskīþ	*wunskijaiþ	*wunskīþ		*wunskijanþai	*wunskijainþau
3rd plural	*wunskijanþi	*wunskijain	*wunskijanþau		*wunskijanþai	*wunskijainþau
past tense	indicative	subjunctive
1st singular	*wunskidǭ	*wunskidēdį̄
2nd singular	*wunskidēz	*wunskidēdīz
3rd singular	*wunskidē	*wunskidēdī
1st dual	*wunskidēdū	*wunskidēdīw
2nd dual	*wunskidēdudiz	*wunskidēdīdiz
1st plural	*wunskidēdum	*wunskidēdīm
2nd plural	*wunskidēdud	*wunskidēdīd
3rd plural	*wunskidēdun	*wunskidēdīn
	present	past
participles	*wunskijandz	*wunskidaz

Descendants

• Proto-West Germanic: *wunskijan
  • Old English: wȳsċan
    • Middle English: wüschen, wischen, wisshen
      • Scots: wis
      • English: wish
      • Yola: vish
  • Old Frisian: *wenskia, *wunskia (likely a borrowing?)
    • Saterland Frisian: wonskje
    • West Frisian: winskje
  • Old Saxon: *wunskian
    • Middle Low German: wunschen
      • German Low German: wönschen, wünsken (Westphalian)
      • Low German: wöösken
      • Plautdietsch: wenschen
  • Old Dutch: *wunsken
    • Middle Dutch: wonschen (eastern), wunschen (eastern), wenschen (western)
      • Dutch: wensen
        • Afrikaans: wens
      • Limburgish: wönsje
  • Old High German: wunsken, wunscen
    • Middle High German: wunschen
      • German: wünschen
        • → Czech: vinšovat
        • → Polish: winszować
          • → Belarusian: віншава́ць (vinšavácʹ)
          • → Ukrainian: віншува́ти (vinšuváty)
        • → Carpathian Rusyn: вінчова́ти (vinčováty)
        • → Slovak: vinšovať
      • Luxembourgish: wënschen
      • Yiddish: ווינטשן (vintshn)
    • → Serbo-Croatian: приу̀штити, priùštiti
    • → Slovene: voščiti, privoščiti
• Old Norse: œskja, ǿskja, ýskja
  • Icelandic: æskja
  • Faroese: ynskja
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: ynskja, ønskja; (dialectal) yskje, yski
  • Jamtish: ønskje
  • Old Swedish: ȳskia, ø̄skia, ønskia
    • Swedish: önska
  • Old Danish: ȳskæ
    • Danish: ønske
      • Norwegian Bokmål: ønske
        • → Norwegian Nynorsk: ønske, ønska
  • Elfdalian: yönstja
  • Gutnish: ynske
• →? Proto-Finnic: *uskodak