wusc

Etymology
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) wish
 * 2) choice

Usage notes

 * The declension table below shows the inherited distribution of *sk according to Ringe: "medially *sk was apparently palatalized unless a back vowel followed; finally it was palatalized unless a back vowel preceded." However, in a word like wūsc the distribution could have been leveled in either direction by the literary period, as it is not nearly as simple as in words like where it would have been neatly divided between singular and plural. In the case of the rhyming word, it was leveled at least by the Middle English period, producing   as well as  and dialectical  . Note that the modern noun  is derived from the (much more frequent) verb and so does not provide evidence either way.