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Won vs Wan - What's the difference?

won | wan |

As verbs the difference between won and wan

is that won is past tense of win while wan is past tense of win.

As nouns the difference between won and wan

is that won is the currency of Korea, making 100 jun in North Korea and 100 jeon in South Korea while wan is the quality of being wan; wanness.

As an adjective wan is

pale, sickly-looking.

won

English

(wikipedia won)

Etymology 1

* Past participle of (win), from (etyl) winnan.

Verb

(head)
  • (win)

    • Etymology 2

    From (etyl) wunian. Cognate with (etyl) wonen, (etyl) wohnen.

    Alternative forms

    * wone

    Verb

    (d)
  • To live, remain.
  • *1600 , (Edward Fairfax), The (Jerusalem Delivered) of (w), XII, xxxiii:
  • *:I long'd to leave this wand'ring pilgrimage, / And in my native soil again to won .
  • To be accustomed to do something.

    • Etymology 3

    (etyl) ).

    Noun

    (won)
  • The currency of Korea, making 100 jun in North Korea and 100 jeon in South Korea.

    • Synonyms

    *

    See also

    * (North Korean won) * (South Korean won) * (Korean won) * * , ch?n, jeon) *

    Anagrams

    * * English heteronyms English invariant nouns English irregular past participles English irregular simple past forms ----

    wan

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl), from (etyl) .

    Adjective

    (wanner)
  • Pale, sickly-looking.
  • * Spenser
    • Sad to view, his visage pale and wan .
  • * Longfellow
    • the wan moon overhead
  • * {{quote-book
    • , year=1921 , year_published=2012 , edition=HTML , editor= , author=Edgar Rice Burrows , title=The Efficiency Expert , chapter= citation , genre= , publisher=The Gutenberg Project , isbn= , page= , passage=She looked wan and worried, ... }}
  • Dim, faint.
  • * {{quote-book, passage=’twas so far away, that evil day when I prayed to the Prince of Gloom / For the savage strength and the sullen length of life to work his doom. / Nor sign nor word had I seen or heard, and it happed so long ago; / My youth was gone and my memory wan , and I willed it even so.
    • , title=(Ballads of a Cheechako) , chapter=(The Ballad of One-Eyed Mike) , author=Robert W. Service , year=1909}}
  • Bland, uninterested.
    • A wan expression

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality of being wan; wanness.
  • * Tennyson
    • Tinged with wan from lack of sleep.

    Etymology 2

    Inflected forms.

    Verb

    (head)
  • (obsolete) (win)

    • Anagrams

    * ----