wynn en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
From Middle English wynne, winne, wenne, wunne, wyn, from Old English wynn (“joy, pleasure”) (runes were named using words beginning with their sound), from Proto-West Germanic *wunnju, from Proto-Germanic *wunjō, from Proto-Indo-European *wn̥h₁yeh₂, from *wenh₁- (“desire, wish, love”).
Meanings
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A letter of the Old English alphabet, ƿ, borrowed from the futhark and used to represent the sound of w; replaced in Middle English times by the digraph uu, which later developed into the letter w.
The Norman scribes gradually replaced wynn by u, uu, vv, and w itself.
1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 175:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| win | alternative | lexicographic | |
| wynns | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| wen | alternative, obsolete | lexicographic |
Relateds
edh · þorn · eth · eð · þ · ð · thorn
Translations (1)
bg уин (letter of the Latin alphabet (Ƿ/ƿ))