u̯ek̂-

    u̯ek̂-

    English meaning: to wish

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “wollen, wũnschen”

    Material: O.Ind. váś-mi, váṣṭi, uś-mási, Av. vasǝmī, usǝ̄ mahī “wollen, wish”, participle O.Ind. uśánt-, f. uśatī “willing”, Av. an-usant-, -usaitī “widerwillig, ohne es to wollen”, Av. vasah- (nom. vasǘ) “wollend = after seinem Willen”, vasō, vasǝ̄ “after wish, beliebig” (acc. sg. of n. *vasah-), vasō-xšaϑra- “after Gefallen schaltend” etc., O.Ind. vaśi-tva- n. “Willensfreiheit”; ap. vašnü, Av. vasnü (instr. sg.) “after dem Willen” (Arm. vasn “because of” Lw.); Gk. (previous participle) ἑκών (Cret. Fεκών), ἑκοῦσα “freiwillig” (the Asper after ἕ ‘sich”, as though “from sich selbst heraus”), ἀέκων, ἄ̄κων “wider Willen, ohne Vorsatz”, f. Dor. ἀέκασσα, compare Cret. γέκαθα ἑκοῦσα Hes., Fέκα in οὔφεκα οὐκ ἀρεστῶς Hes., i.e. οὐ Fέκα, in ἕνεκα, Hom. εἵνεκα “because of” (*ἕνFεκα; ἕν is die preposition ἐν), Hom. ἑκά-εργος “after Belieben wirkend”, ἑκή-βολος “after Belieben treffend” (metr. lengthening for *ἑκα- βολος), out of it extended ἑκατη-βόλος, -βελέτης; böot. Fhεκα-δαμος (with versch. assimilation out of it thes. Fεκέδαμος, Att. ᾽Ακάδημος); ἕκητι, Dor. ἕκᾱτι “after dem Willen, because of, (unclear)”, ἀεκαζόμενος “not wollend, widerstrebend” (after ἀναγκαζόμενος); Hitt. u̯ek- “wish, arrogate”.

    References: WP. I 244 f., Frisk 473 f., 477, 479.