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Wante vs Wanta - What's the difference?

wante | wanta |

As a noun wante

is obsolete spelling of lang=en.

As a verb wante

is obsolete spelling of lang=en.

As a contraction wanta is

eye dialect of want to|lang=en.

wante

English

Noun

(head)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1733, author=Various, title=Great Epochs in American History, Vol. II, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=But they still followed them by guess, hopeing to find their dwellings; but they soone lost both them & them selves, falling into shuch thickets as were ready to tear their cloaths & armore in peeces, but were most distressed for wante of drinke. }}

    Verb

    (head)
  • * {{quote-book, year=1621, author=Azel Ames, title=The Mayflower and Her Log, Complete, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=I trow you must excomunicate me, or els you must goe without their companie, or we shall wante no quareling; but let them pass. }}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1890, author=William Painter, title=The Palace of Pleasure, Volume 1, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=We shall soner wante our Fathers and Senatours, then they their plebeian officers. }}

    Anagrams

    *

    wanta

    English

    Alternative forms

    * wanna

    Contraction

    (en-cont)
  • 1937 , , Their Eyes Were Watching God , Harper Perennial (2000), page 163:
    “We don’t wanta . Come on aid us. It might be night time when de water hem you up in heah. Dat’s how come Ah won’t stay. Come on, man.”

    See also

    * gotta * gonna ----