wanten

From Middle English wanten, equivalent to want +‎ -en.

wanten

1. (obsolete, dialectal) plural simple present of want
   • 1688, Thomas Shadwell, “The Expoſtulation”, in The Squire of Alſatia. A Comedy, […] ‎^[1], London: James Knapton […] , page 22:

     […] Odsfleſh give me my awd Cloths againe; would I were a whome in my Frock, dreſſing of my Geldings; poore Tuts, they wanten me dearly, I warrant a.

   • 1879, Georgina F. Jackson, “GIGGLING, adj.”, in Shropshire Word-book: A Glossary of Archaic and Provincial Words, Etc., Used in the County‎^[2], London: Trübner & Company, page 507:

     Yo'd'n better nod get up o' that giglin' stool, athout yo' wanten yore bwunz broke.

   • 1881, Benjamin Brierly, “Fain”, in Ab-o'th'-yate's Dictionary: Or Walmsley Fowt Skoomester‎^[3], Manchester: Abel Heywood & Son, page 22:

     We say'n beg when we wanten someb'dy to tak no notice of what we'n said.

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• Rhymes: -ɑntən

wanten

1. plural of want

• wante
• want, wanton, whante (Late Middle English)
• waunte, wauntte (Northern)
• wonte, wonten, wonti, wontin (West Midlands)

Borrowed from Old Norse vanta (“to be lacking”), from Proto-Germanic *wanatōną.

The West Midland pronunciation with /ɔn/ is by analogy with native words where West Midland /ɔn/ corresponds to other dialects' /an/ due to sound change.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwantən/
• (West Midlands) IPA^(key): /ˈwɔntən/, /ˈwɔntiː/

wanten (third-person singular simple present wanteth, present participle wantende, wantynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle wanted)

1. (usually transitive) To lack; to not have:
   1. (transitive) To require or need (and not have)
   2. (transitive) To lose or be divested of.
   3. (intransitive, rare) To be short of (an amount)
2. (intransitive or impersonal) To be lacking or deficient [with to or for or dative pronoun]

• English: want
• Scots: want, wint, wunt
• Yola: waant

• “wanten, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.