want
English
/wɒnt/, /wɑnt/, /wɔnt/, /wɔnt/
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) To wish for or desire (something); to feel a need or desire for; to crave or demand.
- (transitive) To wish, desire or demand to see, have the presence of or do business with.
- (intransitive) To desire (to experience desire); to wish.
- (colloquial) To be advised to do something compare m.
- (transitive) To lack and be in need of or require (something, such as a noun or verbal noun).
- (transitive) To have occasion for (something requisite or useful); to require or need.
- (intransitive) To be lacking or deficient or absent.
- (intransitive) To be in a state of destitution; to be needy; to lack.
- (transitive) To lack and be without, to not have (something).
- (transitive) To lack and (be able to) do without.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English wanten (lack) derived from Old Norse vanta (lack) derived from Proto-Germanic *wanatōną (be wanting, lack) derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (empty, be lacking, be empty, abandon, leave, wasted, lack, deserted), *h₁weh₂- (empty, be lacking, be empty, abandon, leave, wasted, lack, deserted).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*h₁weh₂-
Gloss
empty, be lacking, be empty, abandon, leave, wasted, lack, deserted
Concept
Semantic Field
Quantity
Ontological Category
Property
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- awanting English
- devastate English
- diswant English
- evanesce English
- miswant English
- unwantable English
- unwanted English
- unwanting English
- vaniloquence English
- wane English
- wantable English
- wantcha English
- wanted English
- wantedly English
- wantedness English
- wanter English
- wantest English
- wanteth English
- wantful English
- wanting English
- wantingly English
- wantish English
- wantless English
- wantlessness English
- wantsome English
- wantwit English
- whaddaya English
- whaddayawant English
- wit English
- evanescere Latin
- evanesco, evanescere Latin
- vacans Latin
- vacantia Latin
- vacuitās Latin
- vacuus Latin
- vacātus Latin
- vanus Latin
- vastus Latin
- vocitus Latin
- vānitas Latin
- vānus Latin
- ēvānēscēns Latin
- *h₁uh₂nós Proto-Indo-European
- *h₁weh₂- Proto-Indo-European
- *h₂weh₁yu- Proto-Indo-European
- *un- Proto-Indo-European
- vånd Norwegian Bokmål
- *wanatōną Proto-Germanic
- *wanaz Proto-Germanic
- *wanōną Proto-Germanic
- *wōstinī Proto-Germanic
- vanta Norwegian Nynorsk
- wana Old English
- wanian Old English
- wēstiġ Old English
- wane Middle English
- wanten Middle English
- wanten wit Middle English
- wantsum Middle English
- wantyng Middle English
- vanbúinn Old Norse
- vanta Old Norse
- vanta Icelandic
- ունայնություն Armenian
- wanted Cebuano
- wanne Old High German
- ունայն Old Armenian
- ունայնութիւն Old Armenian
- fás Old Irish
- wan Middle High German
- wann Luxembourgish, Letzeburgesch
- *wand Old Saxon
- vanta Old Swedish
- *wakos Proto-Italic
- *wōstī Frankish
- wani Sranan Tongo
- wantem Bislama
- wan Nigerian Pidgin
- wantchee Chinese Pidgin English