win

name

Etymology: Borrowing from Burmese ဝင်း (wang:)

1. A surname.

noun

Etymology: 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”).

1. Pleasure; joy; delight.
2. Alternative form of wynn.

phrase

1. Initialism of whip inflation now: a 1974 US political slogan.

verb

Etymology: From wind.

1. To dry by exposure to the wind.