Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/willjan

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed words 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
  - English: will
  - Scots: will, wil
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
  - Limburgish: wille
Old High German: wellen, wollen (conflated with *waljaną)
- Middle High German: wellen, wollen
  - Alemannic German: welle, wella, wölla
    Swabian: wella
  - Bavarian: woian
    Apetlonerisch: walln
    Cimbrian: bölln, béllan
  - Central Franconian: welle
  - German: wollen
  - Luxembourgish: wëllen
  - Rhine Franconian:
    Pennsylvania German: wolle
  - Yiddish: וועלן‎ (veln)

References

Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 109: “*wilʲlʲan”

[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 109: “*wilʲlʲan”