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Ween

//wiːn// noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Doubt; conjecture. obsolete
  2. 2
    wiener dog, dachshund slang
  3. 3
    penis slang
Verb
  1. 1
    To suppose, imagine; to think, believe. archaic

    "And when they will fight they will shock them together in a plump; that if there be 20000 men, men shall not ween that there be scant 10000."

  2. 2
    To weep or cry. Northern-England, Scotland, rare

    "The boy's mother weened day and night."

  3. 3
    Misspelling of wean. alt-of, misspelling
  4. 4
    To expect, hope or wish. dated
  5. 5
    To lament. obsolete

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English wene, from Old English wēn, wēna (“hope, weening, expectation”), from Proto-West Germanic *wāni, from Proto-Germanic *wēniz, *wēnǭ (“hope, expectation”), from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to strive, love, want, reach, win”). Cognate with Dutch waan (“delusion”), Afrikaans waan (“delusion”), German Wahn (“illusion, false hope”).

Etymology 2

From Middle English wenen, from Old English wēnan, from Proto-Germanic *wēnijaną. Cognate with Dutch wanen, German wähnen.

Etymology 3

From Middle English weinen (“to wail, lament”), from Old English wānian (“to bewail, lament”), from Proto-Germanic *wainōną (“to cry, lament, grieve”). Cognate with Dutch wenen (“to weep, cry”), German weinen (“to weep, cry”), Icelandic veina (“to wail, cry out”), West Frisian weine (“to weep, cry”).

Etymology 4

Abbreviation of wiener dog

Etymology 5

Abbreviation of wiener (penis)

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