different between earn vs won

English

Etymology 1

From Old English earnian, from Middle English ernen, from Proto-West Germanic *a?an?n, from Proto-Germanic *azan?n?.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??n/
• (US) enPR: ûrn, IPA^(key): /?n/
• Rhymes: -??(?)n
• Homophones: ern, erne, urn

Verb

earn (third-person singular simple present earns, present participle earning, simple past and past participle earned or (chiefly UK) earnt)

1. (transitive) To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work.

   • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
2. (transitive) To receive payment for work.

   (Can we add an example for this sense?)

3. (intransitive) To receive payment for work.

4. (transitive) To cause (someone) to receive payment or reward.
5. (transitive) To achieve by being worthy of.

Synonyms

• (gain through applied effort or work): deserve, merit, garner, win
• ((transitive) receive payment for work):
• ((intransitive) receive payment for work):
• (cause someone to receive payment or reward): yield, make, generate, render

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 2

Probably either:

• from Middle English erne, ernen (“to coagulate, congeal”) (chiefly South Midlands)  [and other forms], a metathetic variant of rennen (“to run; to coagulate, congeal”), from Old English rinnen (“to run”) (with the variants iernan, irnan) and Old Norse rinna (“to move quickly, run; of liquid: to flow, run; to melt”), both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?er- (“to move, stir; to rise, spring”); or
• a back-formation from earning (“(Britain regional, archaic) rennet”).

Verb

earn (third-person singular simple present earns, present participle earning, simple past and past participle earned) (Britain, dialectal)

1. (transitive, archaic) To curdle (milk), especially in the cheesemaking process.

   Synonyms: run, (Northern England, Scotland) yearn

2. (intransitive, obsolete) Of milk: to curdle, espcially in the cheesemaking process.

Etymology 3

A variant of yearn.

Verb

earn (third-person singular simple present earns, present participle earning, simple past and past participle earned)

1. (transitive, obsolete) To strongly long or yearn (for something or to do something).
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To grieve.

Etymology 4

Noun

earn (plural earns)

1. Alternative form of erne

References

Anagrams

• Arne, Near, Nera, eRNA, erna, nare, near, rean

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *arô, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ér? (“eagle, large bird”). Cognate with Old Frisian *ern, Old Saxon *arn, Old Dutch *arn, Old High German arn, Old Norse ?rn, Gothic ???????????? (ara); and, outside the Germanic languages, with Ancient Greek ????? (órnis, “bird”), Old Armenian ???? (oror, “gull”), Old Irish irar, Lithuanian er?lis, Old Church Slavonic ????? (or?l?).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /æ??rn/, [æ??r?n]

Noun

earn m

1. eagle

Declension

Descendants

• English: erne

West Frisian

Etymology

From Old Frisian *ern, from Proto-Germanic *arô, from Proto-Indo-European *h?ér?.

Noun

earn c (plural earnen, diminutive earntsje)

1. eagle
2. (figuratively) miser

Further reading

• “earn”, in Wurdboek fan de Fryske taal (in Dutch), 2011

English

Etymology 1

• Past participle of win, from Old English winnan.

Pronunciation

• enPR: w?n, IPA^(key): /w?n/
• Rhymes: -?n
• Homophone: one (some dialects only)

Verb

won

1. simple past tense and past participle of win

Derived terms

• unwon

Etymology 2

From Old English wunian. Cognate with Dutch wonen, German wohnen.

Alternative forms

• wone

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /w?n/
• Homophones: one, wan

Verb

won (third-person singular simple present wons, present participle wonning, simple past and past participle wonned)

1. (archaic or obsolete, regional) To live, remain.
   • 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, XII, xxxiii:

     I long'd to leave this wand'ring pilgrimage, / And in my native soil again to won.

2. (archaic or obsolete, regional) To be accustomed to do something.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Korean ? (?, won), from Sinitic ??? (yuán, “circle” > “round coin”) referring to the piece of eight. Doublet of yuan and yen.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: w?n, IPA^(key): /w?n/
• (US) enPR: wän, IPA^(key): /w?n/
• Rhymes: -?n
• Homophones: one, wan

Noun

won (plural won)

1. The currency of Korea, worth 100 jun in North Korea and 100 jeon in South Korea.

   Synonyms: ?, ?

Translations

Derived terms

• blue won
• red won

See also

• North Korean won on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• South Korean won on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Korean won on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• ? on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• ? (jeon) (?)
• ? (won)

Anagrams

• NOW, NWO, now, own

Chuukese

Preposition

won

1. on

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?n

Verb

won

1. singular past indicative of winnen

French

Etymology

From Korean ? (won) (?).

Noun

won m (plural wons)

1. won (unit of currency)

Indonesian

Etymology

Borrowed from Korean ? (?, won).

Noun

won

1. The currency of Korea, worth 100 jun in North Korea and 100 jeon in South Korea.

Japanese

Romanization

won

1. R?maji transcription of ???

Lower Sorbian

Pronoun

won m sg

1. Superseded spelling of wón.

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

won (plural wones)

1. Alternative form of wone (“dwelling”)

Etymology 2

Noun

won (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of wone (“course”)

Etymology 3

Adjective

won

1. Alternative form of wone

Etymology 4

Adverb

won

1. (Early Middle English) Alternative form of whon

Etymology 5

Noun

won (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of wane (“deprivation”)

Etymology 6

Adjective

won

1. Alternative form of wane

Etymology 7

Adjective

won

1. Alternative form of wan

Etymology 8

Noun

won (plural wones)

1. Alternative form of wone (“custom”)

Etymology 9

Noun

won (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of wane (“woeful state”)

Etymology 10

Verb

won (third-person singular simple present woneth, present participle wonynge, first-/third-person singular past indicative and past participle woned)

1. Alternative form of wonden

Etymology 11

Numeral

won

1. (Late Middle English) Alternative form of on

Etymology 12

Adverb

won

1. (southern West Midlands) Alternative form of whanne

Conjunction

won

1. (southern West Midlands) Alternative form of whanne

Etymology 13

Verb

won

1. Alternative form of wonen (“to dwell”)

Etymology 14

Verb

won

1. Alternative form of wounden: past participle of winden

Etymology 15

Verb

won

1. Alternative form of wanne: singular simple past of winnen
2. Alternative form of wonnen: past participle of winnen

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

won m (definite singular wonen, indefinite plural wonar, definite plural wonane)

1. (numismatics) won (unit of currency)

References

• “won” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?n/

Etymology 1

From Korean ?, from Chinese ?.

Noun

won m inan

1. won (currency of Korea)

Declension

Etymology 2

From Russian ??? (von).

Interjection

won

1. (colloquial, dismissal) out!, get out!

   Synonyms: precz, wynocha, sio

Further reading

• won in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• won in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Spanish

Noun

won m (plural wones)

1. won (unit of currency)

Wolof

Verb

1. to show

References

Omar Ka (2018) Nanu Dégg Wolof, National African Language Resource Center, ?ISBN, page 19