wellen

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From Middle Dutch wellen, Old Dutch *wellen, from Proto-West Germanic *wallijan.

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wellen

1. to soak, to soften by putting into water

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

wellen

1. plural of wel

From Middle High German wëllen. By surface analysis, Welle +‎ -en

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• Hyphenation: wel‧len

wellen (weak, third-person singular present wellt, past tense wellte, past participle gewellt, auxiliary haben)

1. (transitive or reflexive) to wave

• Wellen

• Wellblech

• “wellen” in Duden online
• “wellen” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

From Old Dutch *wellen, from Proto-West Germanic *wallijan.

wellen

1. to well up
2. to boil

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Dutch: wellen
• Limburgish: wèlle

• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “wellen (III)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page III
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “wellen (IV)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page IV

From Old English wiellan, from Proto-West Germanic *wallijan.

wellen (third-person singular simple present welleth, present participle wellende, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle welled)

1. to boil, to bubble

• English: well
• Scots: well, wall

From Old High German wellen.

• wollen, wöllen, wullen

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈwellən/

wellen (irregular, third-person singular present wil, past tense wolte, past participle gewolt, auxiliary hān)

1. to want

• Alemannic German: welle, wella, wölla
  • Swabian: wella
• Bavarian: woian
  • Apetlonerisch: walln
  • Cimbrian: bölln, béllan (Sette Comuni)
• Central Franconian: welle, wolle (non-native; but now common in some dialects via German)
  • Hunsrik: weele
  • Luxembourgish: wëllen
• German: wollen
• Rhine Franconian:
  • Pennsylvania German: wolle
• Yiddish: וועלן (veln)

From wëlle +‎ -en

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈwɛllən/

wëllen (class 2 weak, third-person singular present wëllet, past tense wëllete, past participle gewëllet, auxiliary hān)

1. to roll

• German: wellen

• "wellen" in Köbler, Gerhard, Mittelhochdeutsches Wörterbuch (3rd edition 2014)

From Proto-West Germanic *walljan.

wellen

1. to choose

• “wellen”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

• willen
• wollen (conflated with *waljaną)

A merger of Proto-West Germanic *willjan (“to want”) and Proto-West Germanic *walljan (“choose, select”).

wellen

1. to want
2. to choose

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

• Middle High German: wellen, wollen, wöllen, wullen
  • Alemannic German: welle, wella, wölla
    • Swabian: wella
  • Bavarian: woian
    • Apetlonerisch: walln
    • Cimbrian: bölln, béllan (Sette Comuni)
  • Central Franconian: welle, wolle (non-native; but now common in some dialects via German)
    • Hunsrik: weele
    • Luxembourgish: wëllen
  • German: wollen
  • Rhine Franconian:
    • Pennsylvania German: wolle
  • Yiddish: וועלן (veln)

• "wellen" in Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch (6th edition 2014)
• Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer, Second Edition