Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗Ellipsis of I would, used to denote that the speaker finds another person sexually attractive.
Something that would happen, or would be the case, under different circumstances; a potentiality.
Used to form the "anterior future", or "future in the past", indicating a futurity relative to a past time. · Used to, did repeatedly, habitually; indicates an action that happened several times in the past (cannot describe continuous states, as in I used to live in London) · Was or were determined to; indicating someone's insistence upon doing something. · Wanted to.
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *welh₁-der. Proto-Germanic *wiljaną Proto-West Germanic *willjan Old English willan Old English wolde English would From Old English wolde, past tense of willan, predecessor of will. The loss of /l/ in this word is probably due to weak stress, as in should and could (though in the latter, the /l/ was due to the analogy of the former two).
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- Inherited-form mentionwoldeang
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