lystan

Meaning

1. to like or want (impersonal, with accusative of person) (+ genitive of object)

   Iċ onġiete þæt iċ þē hæbbe āþrotenne mid þȳ langan spelle, for þon þē lyst nū lēoða.

   I see I've bored you with that long argument, since you want poems now.

   late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Boethius' The Consolation of Philosophy

2. to desire

   Hū be mete? hū swīðe lyst þē þæs?

   How about food? How much dost thou desire that?

   late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies

3. to please

   Gyf þonne ǣfre gebyreð þæt þū þē ful hālne and ful trumne ongytst, and hæafst æalle þīne frēond myd þē, ǣġðer ge on mōde ge on līchaman, and on ðām ilcan worce and on ðām ylcan willum ðe ðē best lyst dōn, hweðer þū ðonne wille bēon āwiht blīðe?

   If then it ever happen that thou shalt find thyself full whole and full strong, and hast all thy friends with thee, both in mind and in body, and in that same work and in that same will which pleaseth thee best to do, wilt thou then be happy at all?

   late 9th century, King Alfred's translation of Saint Augustine's Soliloquies

Conjugation