Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/willjan
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Proto-West Germanic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From 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”