Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/willjan
Proto-West Germanic
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Germanic *wiljaną.
Verb
edit*willjan[1]
- to want
Inflection
edit*wili/*wilī, *weldā
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
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”