Won vs Woz - What's the difference?
won | woz |
(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.
Intentional or eye-dialect misspelling of was.
* {{quote-book, 1893, ,
, passage="You woz' saying," said the farmer, with slow, matter of fact, New England deliberation, "ez how you guessed you '''woz''' beguiled amongst the Injins by your Mexican partner, a pow'ful influential man, and yet you ' woz the only one escaped the gen'ral slarterin'. }}
* {{quote-book, 1894, , Discords
, passage='If she woz mine' - tapping a brick - 'I'd bash 'er 'ed in!'}}
* {{quote-book, 2002, , Country of the Blind, page=343
, passage=We woz robbed, Brian. }}
As a pronoun won
is he.As a noun woz is
wagon (four-wheeled cart for hauling loads).As a verb woz 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) *woz
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Verb
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