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Yoïn van Spijk

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Due to lack of space, unfortunately I wasn't able to include the North-Germanic forms, such as Icelandic 'velkominn', Danish and Norwegian Bokmål 'velkommen', Nynorsk 'velkomen', and Swedish 'välkommen'. These may be loan translations of Middle Low German/Saxon 'wil(le)komen'.

Middle English had multiple other compound words containing 'wil-', such as 'wilspell' ('desired news'), 'wildaȝe' ('desired day'), 'wiltidende' ('desired tiding'), and 'wilgomen' ('pleasant sport').

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Hraban (fiëé visuëlle)

@yvanspijk
I was looking for a quote by Oswald von Wolkenstein that I seem to remember as “bis wille kum”, but found Walther von der Vogelweide: “Ir sult sprechen willekomen”
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ir_sult_

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