to want to say 6 realizations Multi-area
NEW Realization 1
type Polysemy
language Chuvash
lexeme те
meaning 1 to want

унта каяс тетĕп


I want to go there

direction
meaning 2 to say

мĕн терĕ-çав?


what did he say?

reference Электронлă сăмахсар
comment

Андреев, И.А.; Горшков, А.Е.; Иванов, А.И. и др. Чувашско-русский словарь; под редакцией М.И. Скворцова. М., «Русский язык», 1985.

The meaning 'to want' occurs in expressions with verb теparticiple on -ас (-ес).

From Proto-Turkic *tē- 'to say, call'

NEW Realization 2
type Polysemy
language French
lexeme vouloir
meaning 1 to want
direction
meaning 2 to insist

Il veut absolument avoir déjà rencontré cet homme quelque part


He absolutely insists he has already met this man somewhere.

reference <personally collected data>
comment

TLFi

NEW Realization 3
type Polysemy
language German
lexeme wollen
meaning 1 to want
direction
meaning 2 to say

Sie will es nicht getan haben


She claims she didn't do it.

reference <personally collected data>
comment
NEW Realization 4
type Polysemy
language Kpelle
lexeme kɛ/gɛ
meaning 1 (Northern) to want
direction
meaning 2 (Northern) to tell
reference Vydrin Comparative Mande
comment
NEW Realization 5
type Polysemy
language Latin
lexeme volo
meaning 1 to want
direction
meaning 2 to claim

Plato deum sine corpore esse vult (Cicero De natura deorum 1.12(30))


Plato holds that god is entirely incorporeal 

reference Dvoreckij 1976
comment

Dell’Oro, Francesca. 2026. “From volition to reportativity: the reportative uses of Latin volo in synchrony and diachrony (with remarks on German wollen and French vouloir).” Journal of Linguistics. doi:10.1017/S0022226725101035

NEW Realization 6
type Cognates
language 1 Maninka
language 2 Bandi (Gbandi)
lexeme 1 kɛ́
lexeme 2 kɛ/ɣɛ
meaning 1 to want
direction
meaning 2 to tell, say
reference Vydrin Comparative Mande
comment

Maninka-Mori