Won vs Wen - What's the difference?
won | wen |
(win)
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.
The currency of Korea, making 100 jun in North Korea and 100 jeon in South Korea.
A cyst on the skin.
* 1854 , (Henry David Thoreau), (Walden) ,
* 1973 , (Thomas Pynchon), Gravity's Rainbow :
* 1996 , (David Foster Wallace), Infinite Jest , Abacus 2013, p. 4:
As a pronoun won
is he.As a noun wen is
.won
English
(wikipedia won)Etymology 1
* Past participle of (win), from (etyl) winnan.Verb
(head)Etymology 2
From (etyl) wunian. Cognate with (etyl) wonen, (etyl) wohnen.Alternative forms
* woneVerb
(d)Etymology 3
(etyl) ).Noun
(won)Synonyms
*See also
* (North Korean won) * (South Korean won) * (Korean won) * * , ch?n, jeon) *wen
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)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.
- Creeps, foreigners with tinted, oily skin, wens , sties, cysts, wheezes, bad teeth, limps, staring or—worse—with Strange Faraway Smiles.
- I am debating whether to risk scratching the right side of my jaw, where there is a wen .