English Online Dictionary. What means wanna? What does wanna mean?
English
Etymology
Contraction of want to. Attested as early as 1824.
Pronunciation
- (preconsonantal)
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈwɑ.nə/, /ˈwʌ.nə/, /ˈwɔ.nə/
- (prevocalic)
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈwɑ.nʊ/, /ˈwʌ.nʊ/, /ˈwɔ.nʊ/
- Rhymes: -ɒnə
Contraction
wanna
- (informal) Represents a contracted pronunciation of want to.
- (informal) 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
- 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 *wannā.
Noun
wanna f
- tub
Descendants
- Middle High German: wanne
- German: Wanne
- → Estonian: vann
- → Polish: wanna
- → Russian: ва́нна (vánna) (see there for further descendants)
- Vilamovian: wonn
- Yiddish: וואַנע (vane)
- German: Wanne
Polish
Etymology
Borrowed from German Wanne, from Middle High German wanne, from Old High German wanna, from Latin vannus, from Proto-Italic *watnos, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈvan.na/
- Rhymes: -anna
- Syllabification: wan‧na
Noun
wanna f
- bath, bathtub
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- wanna in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- wanna in Polish dictionaries at PWN