wishest

«wishest» in Mova's early modern english dictionary: you wish — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

kind

archaic form

modern equivalent

you wish

part of speech

verb, old form used with thou

meaning for a pupil

«wishest» means «you wish», a form of «wish»: To wish means to want something to happen, even if it may not. A wish is that hope. tree →

how it differs from today

Only the ending is old: -est or -st was the ending used with thou, which today is you with no ending: «thou wishest» = «you wish».

examples

• "That beast which thou wishest to overcome is my brother. (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) tree →
• ‘That beast which thou wishest to overcome is my brother. (The Red Fairy Book) tree →
• "Thou wishest thou couldest go to the ball, is it not so?" (The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault) tree →

tests

ending -est (stem «wish», a verb of EWT); corpora 5 (Torah 0, tales 5, Sefer Yetzirah 0); EWT 0; ratio 0.6 (Torah alone 0.0); Wiktionary no archaic label

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «wishest» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.