English

Proper noun

Willa

1. A female given name.
   • 1974 Bernice Slote, Virginia Faulkner, The Art of Willa Cather, University of Nebraska - Lincoln, ISBN 0803257945, page 198:

     Even though Miss Cather's father clearly wrote that Willa was named after our "little sister", Miss Lewis' text reads: "They named Willa after ... William Lee Boak, who was killed in the Civil War".

Old English

Noun

willa m ‎(nominative plural willan)

1. desire, inclination, will
2. wish, desire
3. pleasure, delight
4. will, intent

Derived terms

• wilġesīþ
• willian

See also

• willan

Descendants

• English: will

Old Frisian

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wiljaną.

Verb

willa

1. want

Descendants

• North Frisian:

  Föhr-Amrum and Sylt: wel

  Mooring: wale

• West Frisian: wolle