Dwin
/dwɪn/noun
To waste away, fade, or dwindle; an archaic or dialectal English verb.
Did you know?Dwin belongs to an old Germanic family of words associated with diminishing and vanishing, surviving most visibly today in “dwindle.”
Etymological Timeline
Proto-Germanic
PGmc
*dwinaną
“To waste away, diminish, or fade”
Old English
Old English
dwinan
“To languish, pine away, or perish gradually”
Middle English
Middle English
dwinen
“To waste away or become feeble”
14th–15th Century
English
dwin
“To fade, shrink, or decline”
Modern English
English
dwin
“An obsolete or dialectal verb meaning to dwindle or waste away”