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wel-1
To wish, will.
Derivatives include wealth, gallop, gallant, and voluptuous.- well2, from Old English wel, well (< "according to one's wish"), from Germanic *wel‑.
- weal1, wealth, from Old English wela, weola, well-being, riches, from Germanic *welōn‑.
- will1, from Old English willa, desire, will power, from Germanic *wiljōn‑.
- will2; nill, willy-nilly, from Old English willan, to desire, from Germanic *wil(l)jan.
- Germanic compound *wil-kumōn‑ (see gwā-).
- O-grade form *wol‑.
- gallop, from Old French galoper, to gallop;
- wallop, from Old North French *waloper, to gallop;
- gallant; gallimaufry, from Old French galer, to rejoice, from Frankish Latin *walāre, to take it easy, from Frankish *wala, good, well. a-c all from Germanic *wal‑.
- Basic form *wel‑. velleity, volition, voluntary; benevolent, malevolence, from Latin velle (present stem vol‑), to wish, will.
- Probably suffixed extended form *wel-p-i‑. voluptuary, voluptuous, from Latin voluptās, pleasure, from an adjective *volupis, pleasing (probably preserved in the adverb volup, with pleasure, from neuter *volupe).
[Pokorny 2. u̯el‑ 1137.] |
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