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Want

2 stages from Old Norse to English.

Today it means to desire or wish for something
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Stage 1 of 2
vanta
Old Norse · medieval
"to lack, to be missing"
to lack, to be missing something needed
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Stage 2 of 2
want
English · 1200s
"to desire or wish for something"
broadened from lacking something to desiring it
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