see|w�n|wén|w�n|wèn
English
Pronunciation
AHD|w�n, IPA|/w�n/, SAMPA|/wEn/
rhymes|�n
Homophones
when (in accents with the wine-whine merger)
Etymology 1
Old English wenn
Noun
en-noun
- a cyst on the skin
#*1973: Creeps, foreigners with tinted, oily skin, wens, sties, cysts, wheezes, bad teeth, limps, staring or�worse�with Strange Faraway Smiles. � Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
Translations
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mid
Korean: � (hog, hok)
Etymology 2
Old English wynn
Noun
en-noun|-
- a runic letter later replaced by w
Category:English concrete nouns
Category:English homophones
Dutch
Verb form
wen
- First person singular present tense of wennen.
German
Pronunciation
IPA|[ve�n]
Pronoun
wen
- interrogative|lang=de accusative of wer, whowhom|(m) (direct object).
Category:German interrogative pronoun forms
Mandarin
Pinyin syllable
wen
- A transliteration of any of a number of Chinese characters properly represented as having one of four tones, w�n, wén, w�n, or wèn.
Usage notes
English transcriptions of Chinese speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Chinese language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.
Category:Mandarin pinyin
Old English
Etymology
From Germanic Latinx|*wǣniz, from Indo-European *wen- �love�. Cogante with Old Frisian #Old Frisian|wen, Old Saxon wan, Old High German wan|w�n (German Wahn �delusion�), Old Norse ván, Gothic ����.
Pronunciation
IPA|/we�n/
Noun
Latinx|w�n f
- hope, belief
- expectation, likelihood
Declension
oe-noun|w�n|w�na, -e|w�n, -e|w�na, -e|w�ne|w�na|w�ne|w�num
Descendants
English: ween
de:wen
fr:wen
io:wen
li:wen
hu:wen
ja:wen
pl:wen
ru:wen
tl:wen
te:wen
vi:wen
zh:wen
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