win

Middle English {it}winnen{/it} "to strive, struggle, obtain by exertion, earn with labor, gain, triumph," going back to Old English {it}winnan{/it} "to labor, strive," going back to a Germanic verb base {it}*wenu̯-{/it} (whence Old Saxon {it}winnan{/it} "to struggle, suffer, acquire," Old High German, "to labor, struggle, rage," Old Norse {it}vinna{/it} "to labor, suffer, gain," Gothic {it}winnan{/it} "to suffer"); akin to Sanskrit {it}vanoti{/it} "(s/he) demands, strives for, obtains," {it}vanate{/it} "(s/he) shall obtain," Avestan {it}vanaiti{/it} "(s/he) defeats"