Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/wunskijan

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms 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 *wunskijaną.

Verb

*wunskijan

1. to wish, desire

Inflection

Class 1 weak
Infinitive	*wunskijan
1st sg. past	*wunskidā
Infinitive	*wunskijan
Genitive infin.	*wunskijannjas
Dative infin.	*wunskijannjē
Instrum. infin.	*wunskijannju
Indicative	Present	Past
1st singular	*wunskiju	*wunskidā
2nd singular	*wunskisi	*wunskidēs, *wunskidōs
3rd singular	*wunskiþi	*wunskidē, *wunskidā
1st plural	*wunskijum	*wunskidum
2nd plural	*wunskiþ	*wunskidud
3rd plural	*wunskijanþ	*wunskidun
Subjunctive	Present	Past
1st singular	*wunskijē	*wunskidī
2nd singular	*wunskijēs	*wunskidī
3rd singular	*wunskijē	*wunskidī
1st plural	*wunskijēm	*wunskidīm
2nd plural	*wunskijēþ	*wunskidīd
3rd plural	*wunskijēn	*wunskidīn
Imperative	Present
Singular	*wunski
Plural	*wunskiþ
	Present	Past
Participle	*wunskijandī	*wunskid

Descendants

• Old English: wȳsċan
  • Middle English: wüschen, wischen, wisshen
    • Scots: wis
    • English: wish
    • Yola: vish
• Old Frisian: *wenskia, *wunskia (likely a borrowing?)
  • Saterland Frisian: wonskje
  • West Frisian: winskje
• Old Saxon: *wunskian
  • Middle Low German: wunschen
    • German Low German: wönschen, wünsken (Westphalian)
    • Low German: wöösken
    • Plautdietsch: wenschen
• Old Dutch: *wunsken
  • Middle Dutch: wonschen (eastern), wunschen (eastern), wenschen (western)
    • Dutch: wensen
      • Afrikaans: wens
    • Limburgish: wönsje
• Old High German: wunsken, wunscen
  • Middle High German: wunschen
    • German: wünschen
      • → Czech: vinšovat
      • → Polish: winszować
        • → Belarusian: віншава́ць (vinšavácʹ)
        • → Ukrainian: віншува́ти (vinšuváty)
      • → Carpathian Rusyn: вінчова́ти (vinčováty)
      • → Slovak: vinšovať
    • Luxembourgish: wënschen
    • Yiddish: ווינטשן (vintshn)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: приу̀штити, priùštiti
  • → Slovene: voščiti, privoščiti