waant

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• Rhymes: -aːnt

waant

1. inflection of wanen:
   1. second/third-person singular present indicative
   2. (archaic) plural imperative

• IPA^(key): /wɔːnt/

From Middle English wanten, from Old Norse vanta, from Proto-Germanic *wanatōną.

waant

1. to want, lack
   • 1867, “VERSES IN ANSWER TO THE WEDDEEN O BALLYMORE”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 3, page 100:

     Mye thee friend ne're waant welcome, nor straayart comfoort.

     May thy friend ne'er want welcome, nor the stranger comfort.

waant

1. Alternative form of waunt
   • 1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2, page 102:

     As ich waant draugh Bloomere's Knough,

     As I went through Bloomer's Knock,

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 77 & 102