"wenschen" meaning in Middle Dutch

See wenschen in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Etymology: From Old Dutch *wunsken, from Proto-Germanic *wunskijaną. The vowel e arose due to unrounding of u in the more coastal dialects. Etymology templates: {{inh|dum|odt|*wunsken}} Old Dutch *wunsken, {{inh|dum|gem-pro|*wunskijaną}} Proto-Germanic *wunskijaną Head templates: {{head|dum|verb|head=|head2=}} wenschen, {{dum-verb}} wenschen Inflection templates: {{dum-conj-wk|wensch}} Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], wenschen [error-unrecognized-form, infinitive], wenschens [genitive, infinitive], wenschene [dative, infinitive], wensche [first-person, indicative, present, singular], - [first-person, indicative, past, singular], wensche [first-person, present, singular, subjunctive], - [first-person, past, singular, subjunctive], wenschs [indicative, present, second-person, singular], wensches [indicative, present, second-person, singular], - [indicative, past, second-person, singular], wenschs [present, second-person, singular, subjunctive], wensches [present, second-person, singular, subjunctive], - [past, second-person, singular, subjunctive], wenscht [indicative, present, singular, third-person], wenschet [indicative, present, singular, third-person], - [indicative, past, singular, third-person], wensche [present, singular, subjunctive, third-person], - [past, singular, subjunctive, third-person], wenschen [first-person, indicative, plural, present], - [first-person, indicative, past, plural], wenschen [first-person, plural, present, subjunctive], - [first-person, past, plural, subjunctive], wenscht [indicative, plural, present, second-person], wenschet [indicative, plural, present, second-person], - [indicative, past, plural, second-person], wenscht [plural, present, second-person, subjunctive], wenschet [plural, present, second-person, subjunctive], - [past, plural, second-person, subjunctive], wenschen [indicative, plural, present, third-person], - [indicative, past, plural, third-person], wenschen [plural, present, subjunctive, third-person], - [past, plural, subjunctive, third-person], wensch [imperative, indicative, present, singular], wensche [imperative, indicative, present, singular], wenscht [imperative, indicative, plural, present], wenschet [imperative, indicative, plural, present], wenschende [imperative, participle, present], - [imperative, participle, past], wonschen [alternative], wunschen [alternative]
  1. to wish, to desire
    Sense id: en-wenschen-dum-verb-xmzS~Bky
  2. to wish, to hope (towards someone)
    Sense id: en-wenschen-dum-verb-az8N5CGv
     
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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Middle Dutch dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2026-01-19 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2026-01-01 using wiktextract (d1270d2 and 9905b1f). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.