winnen
Middle English
/ˈwinən/
verb
Definitions
- to exert effort, strive for
- to fight against, war against
- to suffer
- to gain
- to make profit, a living, earn a salary
- to beget
- to defeat, triumph over, subjugate
- to proceed, go
- to take, remove
Etymology
Inherited from Old English winnan (swink, labour, resist, trouble oneself, fight, contradict, oppose, strive, toil, rage, endure, struggle) inherited from *winnan inherited from Proto-Germanic *winnaną (gain, win, fight, labour, swink, labor, strive).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*winnaną
Gloss
gain, win, fight, labour, swink, labor, strive
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bewin English
- electrowin English
- outwin English
- overwin English
- rewin English
- win English
- winless English
- winnability English
- winnable English
- winner English
- winnest English
- winneth English
- witherwin English
- won English
- *wen- Proto-Indo-European
- *wenh₁- Proto-Indo-European
- *winnaną Proto-Germanic
- gewinnan Old English
- oferwinnan Old English
- winnan Old English
- wiþerwinna Old English
- āwinnan Old English
- ġewinnan Old English
- awinnen Middle English
- biwinnen Middle English
- iwinnen Middle English
- wiþerwine Middle English
- wynner Middle English
- wynnyng Middle English
- vinna Old Norse
- giwennen Old High German
- giwinnan Old High German
- winnan Old High German
- 𐍅𐌹𐌽𐌽𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- *winnan gmw-pro
- winnan Old Dutch
- winnan Old Saxon
- winna Old Frisian
- wina Xhosa
- winim Tok Pisin
- win Chuukese