wynn

wynn

wen

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wynn

or wen

noun

An Old English rune (&wynn;&thin;) having the sound (w) and used in Old English and Middle English writing.

Origin of wynn

Old English; see wen-¹ in Indo-European roots.

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Noun

(plural wynns)

a letter of the Old English alphabet, 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.

Origin

Old English Æ¿ynn (“joy, pleasure"), from Common Germanic *wunjÅ, from Proto-Indo-European *wn-yeHâ‚‚, derived from *wen- ("desire").

Noun

(plural wynns)

A kind of timber truck, or carriage.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster's Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.

Proper noun