wanna

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English

Etymology

Contractions. Attested as early as 1824.

Pronunciation

• (preconsonantal)
  • IPA^(key): /ˈwɑ.nə/, /ˈwʌ.nə/, /ˈwɔ.nə/
• (prevocalic)
  • IPA^(key): /-nuː/, /-nə/
    • In accents where prevocalic schwa would usually trigger linking-R (most non-rhotic accents), this does not happen.
• Rhymes: -ɒnə

Contraction

wanna

1. (colloquial) Represents a contracted pronunciation of want to.
2. (colloquial) Represents a contracted pronunciation of want a.

Usage notes

The spoken contractions are widespread in everyday informal speech. The written contractions are inappropriate outside informal writing or transcription of casual speech.

Wanna is less commonly and less regularly used as a contraction of wants to and wants a.

Derived terms

• wannabe
• wanna contraction

See also

• gonna
• gotta

Afar

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wanˈna/ [wʌnˈnʌ]
• Hyphenation: wan‧na

Noun

wanná f 

1. heart

References

• Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie)‎^[2], Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis), page 74

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *wannu.

Noun

wanna f

1. tub

Descendants

• Middle High German: wanne
  • German: Wanne (see there for further descendants)
  • Vilamovian: wonn
  • Yiddish: וואַנע (vane)

Polish

Alternative forms

• wanda (Przemyśl)

Etymology

Borrowed from German Wanne.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -anna
• Syllabification: wan‧na

Noun

wanna f

1. bath, bathtub
2. (Central Greater Poland) Synonym of balia

Declension

Derived terms

Further reading

• wanna in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• wanna in Polish dictionaries at PWN
• Oskar Kolberg (1877) “wanna”, in “Rzecz o mowie ludu wielkopolskiego”, in Zbiór wiadomości do antropologii krajowéj (in Polish), volume 1, III (Materyjały etnologiczne), page 24