winnen

From Middle Dutch winnen, from Old Dutch winnan, from Proto-West Germanic *winnan, from Proto-Germanic *winnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to strive, desire, wish, love”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈʋɪ.nə(n)/

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• Hyphenation: win‧nen
• Rhymes: -ɪnən

winnen

1. (transitive or intransitive) to win, to triumph, to be victorious (in)
2. (transitive) to acquire
3. (transitive) to extract, to refine, to harvest (from base materials such as ore or crops)

• Afrikaans: wen, win
• Berbice Creole Dutch: won
• Negerhollands: win, wind
• → Sranan Tongo: wini
  • → Caribbean Javanese: wini
  • → Kari'na: winimary

From Middle Low German winnen, from Old Saxon winnan, from Proto-West Germanic *winnan, from Proto-Germanic *winnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to strive, desire, wish, love”).

Compare Dutch winnen, German gewinnen, English win, Norwegian vinne, Swedish vinna.

winnen (past singular wunn, past participle wunnen, auxiliary verb hebben)

1. to win

From Middle Low German [Term?], from Old Saxon windan, from Proto-Germanic *windaną, from Proto-Indo-European *wendʰ- (“to strive, desire, wish, love”). Compare German winden, Dutch winden, English wind.

winnen (past singular wunn, past participle wunnen, auxiliary verb hebben)

1. to wind
2. to wreathe
3. to winch
4. to wrest

From Middle High German wenen, from Old High German wennen, from Proto-Germanic *wanjaną. Cognate with German gewöhnen (with prefix ge-).

• IPA^(key): /ˈvinən/
• Rhymes: -inən

winnen (third-person singular present winnt, past participle gewinnt, auxiliary verb hunn)

1. (reflexive, with preposition un) to get used to, to adapt to, to familiarise with
2. (transitive) to bring up, to raise, to nurture

From Old Dutch winnan, from Proto-West Germanic *winnan, from Proto-Germanic *winnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to strive, desire, wish, love”).

winnen

1. to win, to acquire through effort, to earn
2. to acquire, to get
3. to gain
4. to delve, to mine
5. to conquer, to take
6. (of a male) to beget (a child), to sire
7. (of a female) to give birth to

• Dutch: winnen
  • Afrikaans: wen, win
  • Berbice Creole Dutch: won
  • Negerhollands: win, wind
  • → Sranan Tongo: wini
    • → Caribbean Javanese: wini
    • → Kari'na: winimary
• Limburgish: winne

• “winnen (II)”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
• Verwijs, E., Verdam, J. (1885–1929) “winnen (I)”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN, page I

• win, winne, wine, when, wynnen, wyn, wynne, wyne
• wen, wene, whin, whyn (Northern)
• winnie, winnien, wunnen, wynnye, wynnyen (Southwestern)
• winnien, wunnen, wynnyen (southwest Midlands)

Inherited from Old English winnan, from Proto-West Germanic *winnan, from Proto-Germanic *winnaną (“to labor; to win, gain; to fight, strive”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈwinən/

winnen (third-person singular simple present winneth, present participle winnende, first-/third-person singular past indicative wan, past participle wonnen)

1. to exert effort, strive for
2. to fight against, war against
3. to suffer
4. to gain (territory, wisdom, success, a cow, a prize, etc.)
5. to make profit, a living, earn a salary
6. to beget
7. to defeat, triumph over, subjugate
8. to proceed, go
9. to take, remove

• awinnen
• biwinnen
• iwinnen
• wynnere
• wynnyng

• English: win
• Scots: win

• “winnen, v.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.