Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/willjan

This Proto-West 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-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wiljaną.

Verb

*willjan

1. to want

Inflection

*wili/*wilī, *weldā

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

• Old English: willan, wyllan
  • Middle English: willen, wil, wille, wilen, welin, wole, wolle, willian, wullen (early southwest Midlands)
    • English: will
    • Scots: will, wil
    • Yola: woul, wull, weel, well, will, ill
• Old Frisian: willa, wella
  • North Frisian:

    Föhr-Amrum, Sylt: wel

    Mooring: wale

  • Saterland Frisian: wolle
  • West Frisian: wolle
• Old Saxon: willian
  • Middle Low German: willen, wellen
    • Low German: wüllen
• Old Dutch: willen
  • Middle Dutch: willen
    • Dutch: willen
      • Afrikaans: wil
      • Negerhollands: wil, wel
      • Skepi Creole Dutch: wel, well, will
    • Limburgish: wille
• Old High German: wellen, willen, wollen, wollen (conflated with *waljaną)
  • Middle High German: wellen, wollen, wöllen, wullen
    • Alemannic German: welle, wella, wölla
      • Swabian: wella
    • Bavarian: woian
      • Apetlonerisch: walln
      • Cimbrian: bölln, béllan (Sette Comuni)
    • Central Franconian: welle, wolle (non-native; but now common in some dialects via German)
      • Hunsrik: weele
      • Luxembourgish: wëllen
    • German: wollen
    • Rhine Franconian:
      • Pennsylvania German: wolle
    • Yiddish: וועלן (veln)