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Asturian querer, Portuguese querer, Galician querer, French quérir, Italian chiedere, Aromanian tser, Romanian cere, Sardinian chèrrere
Oscan κϝαιστορ (kwaistor) "magistrate," Marsian qestur "magistrates"
Old Prussian quāits "desire," Lithuanian kviẽsti "to invite"
Doric πέπᾱμαι (pépamai) "to acquire"
The sense of wanting is a particularly archaic feature in Spanish, a meaning that is not found in Classical Latin or in most Latin dialects. Even though wanting was once part the word's definition in very ancient Latin, it had been lost in all Latin dialects other than Terence Latin by the 2nd cent. BCE (Penny 2002). |