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Original entry ↗A desire, wish, longing. · Lack, absence, deficiency. · Poverty. · Something needed or desired; a thing of which the loss is felt.
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *wanatōną Old Norse vantabor. Middle English wanten English want From Middle English wanten (“to lack, to need”), from Old Norse vanta (“to lack”), from Proto-Germanic *wanatōną (“to be wanting, lack”), from *wanô (“lack, deficiency”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁weh₂- (“empty”). Cognate with Middle High German wan (“not full, empty”), Middle Dutch wan (“empty, poor”), Old English wana (“want, lack, absence, deficiency”), Latin vanus (“empty”). See wan, wan-.
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