wen

See also: Wen, weń, wên, wēn, wén, wěn, and wèn

Symbol

wen

(international standards) ISO 639-2 & ISO 639-5 language code for Sorbian languages.

Pronunciation

enPR: wĕn, IPA^(key): /wɛn/
Rhymes: -ɛn
Homophone: when (wine–whine merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English wen, wenne, from Old English wenn, wænn (“wen”), from Proto-Germanic *wanjaz. Cognate with Dutch wen (“goiter”), Low German Ween (“wen”), dialectal German Wenne (“wen”), Danish van, væne.

Noun

wen (plural wens)

A cyst on the skin; a tumor or wart.
- 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Country Described. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag), page 220:
  There was a Fellow with a Wen in his Neck, larger than five Woolpacks, and another with a couple of wooden Legs, each about twenty foot high.
- 1854, Henry David Thoreau, Walden, Walden:
  When I have met an immigrant tottering under a bundle which contained his all--looking like an enormous wen which had grown out of the nape of his neck--I have pitied him, not because that was his all, but because he had all that to carry.
- 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:
  Creeps, foreigners with tinted, oily skin, wens, sties, cysts, wheezes, bad teeth, limps, staring or—worse—with Strange Faraway Smiles.
- 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass., New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 4:
  I am debating whether to risk scratching the right side of my jaw, where there is a wen.

Derived terms

Great Wen

Translations

a cyst on the skin

Bulgarian: липома f (lipoma)
Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: rakkula (fi), rakko (fi), kysta (fi)
French: loupe (fr) f
German: Grützbeutel m, Grießknoten m, Talgknoten m, Fettgeschwulst f, Balggeschwulst f (archaic)
Irish: goirín m, ainglis f (familiar), cist gheire f
Italian: natta (it) f
Korean: 혹 (ko) (hok)
Ottoman Turkish: اور (ur)
Plautdietsch: Knubbel m
Russian: жирови́к (ru) m (žirovík)
Swedish: please add this translation if you can
Tagalog: butlig

Etymology 2

From Old English wynn.

Noun

wen (plural wens)

Obsolete form of wynn (“the letter ƿ”).

Etymology 3

Eye dialect spelling of when.

Adverb

wen (not comparable)

(eye dialect) Alternative spelling of when

Conjunction

wen

(eye dialect) Alternative spelling of when

Pronoun

wen

(eye dialect) Alternative spelling of when

Noun

wen (uncountable)

(eye dialect) Alternative spelling of when

Anagrams

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /vɛn/
Audio: (file)

Verb

wen (present wen, present participle wennende, past participle gewen)

to win

Conjunction

wen

when

References

Crosbie, Paul, ed. (2007), Kriol-Inglish Dikshineri: English-Kriol Dictionary. Belize City: Belize Kriol Project, p. 371.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʋɛn/
Audio: (file)
Hyphenation: wen
Rhymes: -ɛn

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *hwannē. Cognate with English when, German wann.

Adverb

wen

(archaic) when
En ik dacht aan den geur harer bloesems, aan het huiveren harer takken, aan den zang harer vogelen; en ik vroeg mij: wen rieken wij die? (V. Someren, 1822)
And I thought about the scent of her blossoms, at the shuddering of her branches, at the songs of her birds, and I asked myself: when do we smell these?

Conjunction

wen

(archaic) when
Daar heb ik wen de vogels vlogen, heimelik in elk nest geschouwd! (L. De Mont, 1880)
There have I, when the birds flew, looked privily in each nest!

Etymology 2

Verb

wen

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

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Etymology

From Old Norse hvern.

Pronoun

wen

what

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [veːn]
Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -eːn

Pronoun

wen

(interrogative) accusative of wer: whom (direct object).
Wen hast du gefragt?
Whom did you ask?

Romanization

wēn

Romanization of 𐍅𐌴𐌽

Particle

wen

yes

Interjection

wen (Abra, Ilocos Sur)

correct!
Indicating surprise at, or requesting confirmation of, some new information; to express skepticism; really
Synonyms: (Abra) oh, (Cordillera) isu

A: Awan isudan.
B: Ay wen?
A: They're no longer here.
B: Oh really?

Usage notes

This is usually preceeded by ay.

Etymology

Derived from English when.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /wen/

Adverb

wen

when
- 2012, Di Jamiekan Nyuu Testiment, Edinburgh: DJB, published 2012, →ISBN, Matyu 23:7:
  Dem lov wen piipl gi dem speshal oudi wen dem go a maakit, an wen dem kaal dem, 'Tiicha'.
  They love [when] people to greet them with respect [when] in the marketplaces, and they love to have people call them 'Teacher'.

Romanization

wen

Rōmaji transcription of ゑん

Romanization

wen

Nonstandard spelling of wēn.
Nonstandard spelling of wén.
Nonstandard spelling of wěn.
Nonstandard spelling of wèn.

Usage notes

Transcriptions of Mandarin into the Latin script often do not distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without indication of tone.

Etymology 1

Noun

wen

Alternative form of wayn (“wagon”)

Etymology 2

Noun

wen (uncountable)

Alternative form of wynne (“happiness”)

Etymology 3

Verb

wen

(Northern) Alternative form of winnen (“to win”)

Alternative forms

wan (Föhr-Amrum)
wune, wane, wine (Mooring)

Etymology

From Old Frisian winna, from Proto-Germanic *winnaną.

Pronunciation

(Sylt) IPA^(key): [vɛn]

Verb

wen

(Sylt) to win

Conjugation

More information infinitive I, infinitive II ...

	present	past
infinitive I	wen
infinitive II	(tö) wenen
past participle	wonen
imperative	wen
1st singular	wen	wuan
2nd singular	wenst	wuanst
3rd singular	went	wuan
plural / dual	wen	wuan
	perfect	pluperfect
1st singular	haa wonen	her wonen
2nd singular	heest wonen	herst wonen
3rd singular	heer wonen	her wonen
plural / dual	haa wonen	her wonen
	future (skel)	future (wel)
1st singular	skel wen	wel wen
2nd singular	sket wen	wet wen
3rd singular	skel wen	wel wen
plural / dual	skel wen	wel wen

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Conjugation of wen (Sylt dialect)

Pronunciation

(Standard Kankanaey) IPA^(key): /ˈwən/ [ˈwɨn]
Rhymes: -ən
Syllabification: wen

Particle

wën

Clipping of owen.

Synonyms

More information Southern / Central, Northern / Applai ...

Southern / Central
Benguet	Mankayan	aw
	Bakun	aw
	Kapangan	aw
	Kibungan	aw
	Buguias	aw
Mt. Province	Tadian	aw
	Bauko	aw
	Sabangan	aw
Northern / Applai
Mt. Province	parts of Tadian	wen, owen
	parts of Bauko	wen, owen
	Sagada	wen, owen
	Besao	wen, owen
	parts of Sabangan	wen, owen

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Dialectal synonyms of wen

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wēniz, from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“love”). Cognate with Old Frisian wen, Old Saxon wan, Old High German wān (German Wahn (“delusion”)), Old Norse ván, Gothic 𐍅𐌴𐌽𐍃 (wēns).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /weːn/

Noun

wēn f

expectation
likelihood
(poetic) hope
probability
- c. 992, Ælfric, "The Octaves and Circumcision of our Lord"
  Wēn is þæt eower sum nyte hwæt sy ymbsnidennys.
  It is probable that some of you know not what circumcision is.
- 1000. West Saxon Gospels (John, xvii. 26). Ic him cyðde ðinne naman & gyt wylle cyþan.

Declension

Strong i-stem:

More information singular, plural ...

	singular	plural
nominative	wēn	wēne, wēna
accusative	wēn, wēne	wēne, wēna
genitive	wēne	wēna
dative	wēne	wēnum

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Descendants

Middle English: wene, wen
- English: ween
- Scots: wen, wene

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *vъ́nъ.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): (10^th–15^th CE) /vɛn/

IPA^(key): (15^th CE) /vɛn/

Adverb

wen

(attested in Greater Poland) outdoors, outside
- 1916 [second half of the 15th century], Stanisław Słoński, editor, Psałterz puławski‎, Greater Poland, pages 30, 15:
  Gysz mye wydzyely, wen (foras) vczekaly ode mnye
  [Jiż mie widzieli, wen (foras) uciekali ode mnie]

Derived terms

noun

zewność

adverb

zewna

References

B. Sieradzka-Baziur, Ewa Deptuchowa, Joanna Duska, Mariusz Frodyma, Beata Hejmo, Dorota Janeczko, Katarzyna Jasińska, Krystyna Kajtoch, Joanna Kozioł, Marian Kucała, Dorota Mika, Gabriela Niemiec, Urszula Poprawska, Elżbieta Supranowicz, Ludwika Szelachowska-Winiarzowa, Zofia Wanicowa, Piotr Szpor, Bartłomiej Borek, editors (2011–2015), “wen”, in Słownik pojęciowy języka staropolskiego [Conceptual Dictionary of Old Polish] (in Polish), Kraków: IJP PAN, →ISBN

Adjective

wen

Soft mutation of gwen (“white (feminine)”).

Mutation

More information radical, soft ...

Mutated forms of *gwen*
radical	soft	nasal	aspirate
gwen	wen	ngwen	unchanged

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Note: Certain mutated forms of some words can never occur in standard Welsh.
All possible mutated forms are displayed for convenience.

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