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win

Translingual

Symbol

win

1. (international standards) ISO 639-3 language code for Winnebago.

See also

• Wiktionary’s coverage of Winnebago terms

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wɪn/
• Rhymes: -ɪn
• Homophones: wynn, Nguyen, winne; when (with both the wine–whine merger and pin–pen merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English winnen, from Old English winnan (“to labour, swink, toil,”) (compare Old English ġewinnan (“conquer, obtain, gain; endure, bear, suffer; be ill”)), from Proto-West Germanic *winnan, from Proto-Germanic *winnaną (“to swink, labour, win, gain, fight”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to strive, wish, desire, love”).

Cognate with Low German winnen, Dutch winnen, German gewinnen, Danish vinde, Norwegian Bokmål vinne, Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish vinna.

Verb

win (third-person singular simple present wins, present participle winning, simple past won or (obsolete) wan, past participle won)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To conquer, defeat.
2. (transitive, intransitive) To reach some destination or object, despite difficulty or toil (now usually intransitive, with preposition or locative adverb).
   • c. 17th century, unknown author, The Baron of Brackley (traditional folk song)

     I well may gang out, love, but I'll never win home.
3. (transitive) To triumph or achieve victory in (a game, a war, etc.).
4. (transitive) To gain (a prize) by succeeding in competition or contest.

5. (transitive) To obtain (someone) by wooing; to make an ally or friend of (frequently with over).
6. (intransitive) To achieve victory.

7. (intransitive) To have power, coercion or control.

8. (transitive) To obtain (something desired).

9. (transitive) To cause a victory for someone.

10. (transitive, mining) To extract (ore, coal, etc.).
11. (transitive, informal) To defeat or surpass someone or something.
12. (computing, informal, intransitive) To take priority.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English winn, winne, from Old English winn (“toil, labor, trouble, hardship; profit, gain; conflict, strife, war”), from Proto-Germanic *winną (“labour, struggle, fight”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to strive, desire, wish, love”). Cognate with German Gewinn (“profit, gain”), Dutch gewin (“profit, gain”).

Noun

win (plural wins)

1. An individual victory.

   Antonym: loss
2. (slang) A feat carried out successfully; a victorious achievement.

   Antonym: fail

3. (obsolete) Gain; profit; income.
4. (obsolete) Wealth; goods owned.

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle English wynne, winne, wunne, from Old English wynn (“joy, rapture, pleasure, delight, gladness”), from Proto-West Germanic *wunnju, from Proto-Germanic *wunjō (“joy, delight, pleasure, lust”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to strive, wish, desire, love”).

Cognate with German Wonne (“bliss, joy, delight”), archaic Dutch wonne (“joy”), Danish ynde (“grace”), Icelandic yndi (“delight”).

Noun

win

1. (Scotland) Pleasure; joy; delight.
2. Alternative form of wynn.

Derived terms

• worldly win

Etymology 4

From wind.

Verb

win

1. (transitive, Scotland) To dry by exposure to the wind.

References

Chuukese

Etymology

Borrowed from English win.

Noun

win

1. win
2. victory
3. prize

Verb

win

1. to win

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪn
• IPA^(key): /ʋɪn/

Verb

win

1. inflection of winnen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative

Kis

Noun

win

1. woman

Further reading

• Malcolm Ross, Proto Oceanic and the Austronesian Languages of Western Melanesia, Pacific Linguistics, series C-98 (1988)
• Stephen Adolphe Wurm, New Guinea Area Languages and Language Study (1976)

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

win (uncountable)

1. alternative form of wynne (“happiness”)

Etymology 2

From Old English winn, from Proto-West Germanic *winnan, from Proto-Germanic *winną, *winnaną; akin to winnen. Reinforced by earlier iwin, from Old English ġewinn.

Alternative forms

• winn, winne, wynne, wunne

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /win/

Noun

win (uncountable)

1. benefit, gain, profit
2. (Late Middle English) wealth, riches
3. (Early Middle English) discord, conflict, turmoil
4. (Early Middle English, rare) exertion, work

Descendants

• English: win

References

• “win, n.(1).”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 3 April 2020.

Etymology 3

Verb

win

1. alternative form of winnen (“to win”)

Etymology 4

Noun

win

1. alternative form of vine (“grapevine”)

Mokilese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwin/

Noun

win

1. hair
2. an animal's feathers or scales

Possessive forms

Derived terms

• winan

North Frisian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [vɪn]

Etymology 1

From Old Frisian wīn, from Proto-West Germanic *wīn, from Latin vīnum.

Noun

win m

1. (Föhr-Amrum, Mooring) wine

Alternative forms

• Wiin (Sylt)

Etymology 2

From Old Frisian wind, from Proto-Germanic *windaz.

Noun

win m

1. (Mooring) wind

Alternative forms

• winj (Föhr-Amrum), Winj (Sylt)

Old Dutch

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *wīn, from Latin vīnum.

Noun

wīn m

1. wine

Inflection

Descendants

• Middle Dutch: wijn
  • Dutch: wijn
    • Afrikaans: wyn
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: win
    • Negerhollands: wien, win
    • → Saramaccan: wín
    • →? Sranan Tongo: win
      • → Lokono: wing
      • → Caribbean Javanese: win
  • Limburgish: wien

Further reading

• “wīn”, in Oudnederlands Woordenboek, 2012

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *wīn from Latin vīnum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wiːn/

Noun

wīn n

1. wine
   • c. 810, charter of Christ Church Canterbury, Cotton Augustus II, 79, f1r:

Declension

Strong a-stem:

Derived terms

• æppelwīn
• wīntrēow

Descendants

• Middle English: wyn, win, wine, wyne, wijn, vine, vyn, vyne, wyen, weyn, wynne
  • English: wine (see there for further descendants)
  • Scots: wyne

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈvin/
• Rhymes: -in
• Syllabification: win

Noun

win f

1. genitive plural of wina

Noun

win n

1. genitive plural of wino

Tok Pisin

Etymology

From English wind.

Noun

win

1. wind

Related terms

• winim

Torres Strait Creole

Etymology

From English wind.

Noun

win

1. wind

Derived terms

• big win

Welsh

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wiːn/

Noun

win

1. soft mutation of gwin

Mutation

West Makian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /win̪/

Noun

win

1. day
2. sun

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎^[2], Pacific linguistics

Yoruba

Etymology 1

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wĩ̀/

Verb

wìn

1. to aim at a target with a projectile

Derived terms

• ìwìn

Etymology 2

Replaced by yá

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wĩ́/

Verb

wín

1. to borrow

   Synonym: yá

2. (transitive) to lend, loan

   Synonym: yá

Derived terms

• ìwín
• wínwó

Etymology 3

Compare with Olukumi wẹ́n and possibly Igala mẹ́, also used by SEY speakers, it has largely been replaced by sún mọ́ in standard Yoruba

Alternative forms

• hín
• ị́n (Ekiti)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wĩ́/

Verb

wín

1. (dated) to be near or close to something

   Synonym: sún mọ́

Derived terms

• ìwín

Related terms

• ìhín, ìyín

Source: wiktionary.org