An Unusual Meaning of 'Win' in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde."

Author / Editor
Fowler, David C.

Title
An Unusual Meaning of 'Win' in Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde."

Published
Modern Language Notes 69 (1954): 313-15.

Description
Suggests that "wynne" in TC 1.390 means to "complain," connecting it with rare but similar usage in Old and Middle English.

Chaucer Subjects
Language and Word Studies
Troilus and Criseyde