different between wen vs mole

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: w?n, IPA^(key): /w?n/
• Rhymes: -?n
• Homophone: when (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Etymology 1

From Middle English wen, wenne, from Old English wenn, wænn (“wen”), from Proto-Germanic *wanjaz. Cognate with Dutch wen (“goiter”), Low German Ween (“wen”), dialectal German Wenne (“wen”), Danish van, væne.

Noun

wen (plural wens)

1. A cyst on the skin.
   • 1854, Henry David Thoreau, Walden, 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.

   • 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:

     Creeps, foreigners with tinted, oily skin, wens, sties, cysts, wheezes, bad teeth, limps, staring or—worse—with Strange Faraway Smiles.

   • 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest, Abacus 2013, p. 4:

     I am debating whether to risk scratching the right side of my jaw, where there is a wen.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Old English wynn.

Noun

wen (plural wens)

1. a runic letter later replaced by w

Etymology 3

Eye dialect spelling of when.

Adverb

wen (not comparable)

1. (eye dialect) Alternative spelling of when

Conjunction

wen

1. (eye dialect) Alternative spelling of when

Pronoun

wen

1. (eye dialect) Alternative spelling of when

Noun

wen (uncountable)

1. (eye dialect) Alternative spelling of when

Anagrams

• New, new, new-

Afrikaans

Etymology

From Dutch winnen, from Middle Dutch winnen, from Old Dutch winnan, from Proto-Germanic *winnan?, from Proto-Indo-European *wenh?- (“to strive, desire, wish, love”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /v?n/

Verb

wen (present wen, present participle wennende, past participle gewen)

1. to win

Belizean Creole

Conjunction

wen

1. when

References

• Crosbie, Paul, ed. (2007), Kriol-Inglish Dikshineri: English-Kriol Dictionary. Belize City: Belize Kriol Project, p. 371.

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n/
• Hyphenation: wen
• Rhymes: -?n

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *hwann?. Cognate with English when, German wann.

Adverb

wen

1. (archaic) when

   En ik dacht aan den geur harer bloesems, aan het huiveren harer takken, aan den zang harer vogelen; en ik vroeg mij: wen rieken wij die? (V. Someren, 1822)

   And I thought about the scent of her blossoms, at the shuddering of her branches, at the songs of her birds, and I asked myself: when do we smell these?

Conjunction

wen

1. (archaic) when

   Daar heb ik wen de vogels vlogen, heimelik in elk nest geschouwd! (L. De Mont, 1880)

   There have I, when the birds flew, looked privily in each nest!

Etymology 2

Verb

wen

1. first-person singular present indicative of wennen
2. imperative of wennen

Elfdalian

Etymology

From Old Norse hvern.

Pronoun

wen

1. what

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ve?n]
• Rhymes: -e?n

Pronoun

wen

1. (interrogative) accusative of wer: whom (direct object).

   Wen hast du gefragt?

   Whom did you ask?

Further reading

• “wen” in Duden online

Gothic

Romanization

w?n

1. Romanization of ????????????

Ilocano

Particle

wen

1. yes

Japanese

Romanization

wen

1. R?maji transcription of ??

Mandarin

Romanization

wen

1. Nonstandard spelling of w?n.
2. Nonstandard spelling of wén.
3. Nonstandard spelling of w?n.
4. Nonstandard spelling of wèn.

Usage notes

• English transcriptions of Mandarin speech often fail to distinguish between the critical tonal differences employed in the Mandarin language, using words such as this one without the appropriate indication of tone.

Middle English

Etymology 1

Noun

wen

1. Alternative form of wayn (“wagon”)

Etymology 2

Noun

wen (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of wynne (“happiness”)

Etymology 3

Verb

wen

1. (Northern) Alternative form of winnen (“to win”)

Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *w?niz, from Proto-Indo-European *wenh?- (“love”). Cognate with Old Frisian wen, Old Saxon wan, Old High German w?n (German Wahn (“delusion”)), Old Norse ván, Gothic ???????????????? (w?ns).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /we?n/

Noun

w?n f

1. hope, belief
2. expectation, likelihood

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: wene, wen
  • English: ween
  • Scots: wen, wene

Welsh

Adjective

wen

1. Soft mutation of gwen (“white (feminine)”).

Mutation

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English mole, mool, from Old English m?l, m?l (“a mole, spot, mark, blemish”), from Proto-Germanic *mail? (“spot, wrinkle”), from Proto-Indo-European *mel-, *melw- (“dark, dirty”), from Proto-Indo-European *mey-, *my- (“to soil, sully”).

Cognate with Scots mail (“spot, stain”), Saterland Frisian Moal (“scar”), German dialectal Meil (“spot, stain, blemish”), Gothic ???????????????? (mail, “spot, blemish”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m??l/, /m??l/
• (Estuary English) IPA^(key): /m??l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /mol/, /mo?l/
• Rhymes: -??l

Noun

mole (plural moles)

1. A pigmented spot on the skin, a naevus, slightly raised, and sometimes hairy.

Synonyms

• birthmark
• nevus, naevus, nævus

Related terms

• beauty mark

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English molle (“mole”), molde, mole, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *mulaz, *mulhaz (“mole, salamander”), from Proto-Indo-European *molg-, *molk- (“slug, salamander”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)melw- (“to grind, crush, beat”).

Cognate with North Frisian mull (“mole”), Saterland Frisian molle (“mole”), Dutch mol (“mole”), Low German Mol, Mul (“mole”), German Molch (“salamander, newt”), Old Russian ?????? (smolž?, “snail”), Czech mlž (“clam”).

Derivation as an abbreviation of Middle English molewarpe, a variation of moldewarpe, moldwerp (“mole”) in Middle English is unexplained and probably unlikely due to the simultaneous occurrence of both words. See mouldwarp.

Alternative forms

• mool, moule, mowle, mold (obsolete)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m??l/
• (Estuary English) IPA^(key): /m??l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /mol/, /mo?l/
• Rhymes: -??l

Noun

mole (plural moles)

1. Any of several small, burrowing insectivores of the family Talpidae.
2. Any of the burrowing rodents also called mole rats.
3. (espionage) An internal spy, a person who involves himself or herself with an enemy organisation, especially an intelligence or governmental organisation, to determine and betray its secrets from within.
4. A kind of self-propelled excavator used to form underground drains, or to clear underground pipelines
5. A type of underground drain used in farm fields, in which a mole plow creates an unlined channel through clay subsoil.

Synonyms

• mouldwarp

Derived terms

Translations

Etymology 3

From moll (from Moll, an archaic nickname for Mary), influenced by the spelling of the word mole (“an internal spy”), and due to /m?l/ and /m??l/ merging as [mo?l] in the Australian accent.

Pronunciation

• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /mo?l/
• Rhymes: -??l

Noun

mole (plural moles)

1. (slang, derogatory) A moll, a bitch, a slut.

Synonyms

• moll

Translations

Etymology 4

From French môle or Latin m?les (“mass, heap, rock”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m??l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /mol/, /mo?l/
• Rhymes: -??l

Noun

mole (plural moles)

1. (nautical) A massive structure, usually of stone, used as a pier, breakwater or junction between places separated by water.
   • 1983, Archibald Lyall, Arthur Norman Brangham, The companion guide to the south of France

     [about Saint-Tropez] Yachts and fishing boats fill the little square of water, which is surrounded on two sides by quays, on the third by a small ship-repairing yard and on the fourth by the mole where the fishing boats moor and the nets are spread out to dry.

2. (rare) A haven or harbour, protected with such a breakwater.
3. (historical) An Ancient Roman mausoleum.

Translations

Etymology 5

Calqued from German Mol; spelled as if it had come directly from molecule or Latin moles (the ultimate source of Mol and molecule in any event).

Alternative forms

• mol (dated)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m??l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /mol/, /mo?l/
• Rhymes: -??l

Noun

mole (plural moles)

1. (chemistry, physics) In the International System of Units, the base unit of amount of substance; the amount of substance of a system which contains as many elementary entities (atoms, ions, molecules, etc.) as there are atoms in 0.012 kg of carbon-12. Symbol: mol. The number of atoms is known as Avogadro’s number. [from 1897]

Hyponyms

• gram molecule
• gram atom

Translations

Etymology 6

From French môle f, from Latin mola (“millstone”), because it is a hardened mass.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m??l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /mol/, /mo?l/
• Rhymes: -??l

Noun

mole (plural moles)

1. A hemorrhagic mass of tissue in the uterus caused by a dead ovum.

Translations

Etymology 7

From Spanish mole, from Classical Nahuatl m?lli (“sauce; stew; something ground”).

Alternative forms

• molé

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?mo?le?/, /?mo?li/

Noun

mole (countable and uncountable, plural moles)

1. One of several spicy sauces typical of the cuisine of Mexico and neighboring Central America, especially the sauce which contains chocolate and which is used in cooking main dishes, not desserts.

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Elmo, Lomé, Melo, melo-, moel

Central Franconian

Etymology

From Old High German m?l?n, m?l?n, denominative of m?l (“spot, stain”), from Proto-West Germanic *m?lijan, from Proto-Germanic *m?lijan?, from Proto-Indo-European *melh?- (“dark color”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m??l?/

Verb

mole (third-person singular present molt, past participle jemolt)

1. (most dialects) to paint, draw, depict

See also

• mahle

Chavacano

Etymology

From Spanish moler (“to grind”).

Verb

molé

1. to mill; to grind

Danish

Etymology

From French môle

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /mo?l?/, [?mo?l?]

Noun

mole c (singular definite molen, plural indefinite moler)

1. mole, breakwater
2. pier, jetty

Inflection

Esperanto

Adverb

mole

1. softly

Antonyms

• malmole

Related terms

• mola (“soft”)

French

Etymology

From German Mol

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /m?l/

Noun

mole f (plural moles)

1. (chemistry, physics) mole

Further reading

• “mole” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

From German Mol

Noun

mole f (plural moli)

1. (chemistry, physics) mole
2. plural of mola

Synonyms

• grammo-molecola

Related terms

• millimole
• molare

Anagrams

• elmo, melo

Latin

Etymology 1

Verb

mole

1. second-person singular present active imperative of mol?

Etymology 2

Noun

m?le f

1. ablative singular of m?l?s

Lower Sorbian

Noun

mole

1. Superseded spelling of móle.

Middle English

Noun

mole

1. Alternative form of molle (“mole”)

Polish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?.l?/

Noun

mole m anim

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of mól

Noun

mole m inan

1. nominative/accusative/vocative plural of mol

Portuguese

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /?m?.l?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /?m?.li/
• (South Brazil) IPA^(key): /?m?.le/
• Hyphenation: mo?le

Etymology 1

From Old Portuguese mole, from Latin mollis, mollem, earlier *molduis, from Proto-Indo-European *(h?)moldus (“soft, weak”).

Adjective

mole m or f (plural moles, comparable)

1. Not hard; smooth or flexible; soft.
2. (informal) Not difficult; easy.

Inflection

Derived terms

• molemente

Related terms

• moleza
• molhar

Etymology 2

From Latin m?les.

Noun

mole f (plural moles)

1. mass

Etymology 3

Noun

mole m (plural moles)

1. (Portugal) Alternative form of mol

Further reading

• “mole” in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa.

Serbo-Croatian

Verb

mole (Cyrillic spelling ????)

1. third-person plural present of moliti

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mole/, [?mo.le]

Etymology 1

Semi-learned borrowing from Latin mollis; cognate with muelle.

Adjective

mole (plural moles)

1. soft, mild

   Synonym: muelle

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin m?l?s.

Noun

mole f (plural moles)

1. hunk, chunk, slab (thing of large size or quantity)
2. massiveness

Etymology 3

From Classical Nahuatl m?lli (“sauce, something ground”).

Noun

mole m (plural moles)

1. (Mexico) mole, a type of stew

Etymology 4

Verb

mole

1. Formal second-person singular (usted) imperative form of molar.
2. First-person singular (yo) present subjunctive form of molar.
3. Formal second-person singular (usted) present subjunctive form of molar.
4. Third-person singular (él, ella, also used with usted^?) present subjunctive form of molar.

Zayse-Zergulla

Noun

mole

1. fish

References

• Takács, Gábor (2007) Etymological Dictionary of Egyptian, volume 3, Leiden: Brill, ?ISBN, page 397: “Zayse mo'le”
• Linda Jordan, A study of Shara and related Ometo speech varieties (Zergulla mòl??)