want
Old High German
noun
Definitions
- wall
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Germanic *wanduz (fence, rod, mole, barrier made of sticks, wickerwork, stick, vole, weave, barrier, plait, wall).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*wanduz
Gloss
fence, rod, mole, barrier made of sticks, wickerwork, stick, vole, weave, barrier, plait, wall
Concept
Semantic Field
Agriculture and vegetation
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
織
Emoji
🤺
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Wand German
- *wendʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- *wanduz Proto-Germanic
- wand Old English
- wand Middle English
- vandahús Old Norse
- vǫndr Old Norse
- vöndur Icelandic
- want Middle Dutch
- lūs Old High German
- wantlus Old High German
- want Middle High German
- 𐍅𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌿𐍃 Gothic
- וואַנט Yiddish
- *vandeh Proto-Finnic
- bant Cimbrian
- *wand Old Saxon
- gwann Westrobothnian