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  1. noun A desire, longing, or strong inclination for a specific thing.
  2. noun An expression of a desire, longing, or strong inclination; a petition.
  3. noun Something desired or longed for.
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  1. Middle English wissh, from wisshen, to wish, from Old English wȳscan; see wen-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English wisch, wyssche, a variant, after the verb, of wusch, from Anglo-Saxon wūsc = Middle Dutch wunsch, wensch, Dutch wensch = Old High German wunsc, Middle High German G. wunsch = Icelandic ōsk (cf. Swedish önskan = Danish önske), wish, desire; see the verb, and cf. Sanskrit √ vāñhh, wish; perhaps a desiderative form (with formative -sk, as in English ask), from the root of English win, etc., strive after: see win.
  2. from Middle English wisshen, wysshen, wischen. wuschen, from Anglo-Saxon wy¯scan, less correctly wīscan = Middle Dutch wunschen, wenschen, Dutch wenschen = Middle Low German wunschen = Old High German wunsken, Middle High German G. wünschen, wish, desire, = Icelandic æskja (for œskja) = Swedish önska = Danish önske, wish; all orig. from the noun, though the modern English word has the vowel of the verb: see wish, n.
 

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