waant

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waant

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

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

waant

1. to want, lack

waant

1. simple past tense of goe
   • 1867, “CASTEALE CUDDE'S LAMENTATION”, in SONGS, ETC. IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, number 2:

     As ich waant draugh Bloomere's Knough,

     As I went through Bloomer's Knock,

• Jacob Poole (1867), 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, page 77 & 102