wynn

See also: Wynn

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English wynne, winne, wenne, wunne, wyn, from Old English wynn (“joy, pleasure”), from Proto-West Germanic *wunnju, from Proto-Germanic *wunjō, from Proto-Indo-European *wn̥h₁yeh₂, from *wenh₁- (“desire, wish, love”).

Alternative forms

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /wɪn/
  • Rhymes: -ɪn
  • Homophones: win, Nguyen

Noun
Wynn
Wynn

wynn (plural wynns)

  1. 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.

See also

Noun

wynn (plural wynns)

  1. 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for wynn in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)

Demotic

Etymology

A metathesized borrowing from the plural Aramaic 𐡉𐡅𐡍𐡉𐡍‎ (*Yawnayīn), itself from Ancient Greek Ἰᾱ́ϝων (Iā́wōn, “Ionian”) — compare the later Ancient Greek Ῐ̓ᾱ́ων (Iā́ōn), Ἴων (Íōn).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /wəjˈniːn/

Noun

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  1. Greek (person)

Descendants
  • Coptic: ⲟⲩⲉⲓⲛⲓⲛ (oueinin) (Bohairic)

References
  • Erichsen, Wolja (1954) Demotisches Glossar, Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard, page 80
  • Černý, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 213
  • Brugsch, F. Chabas and Eug. Revillout (1911) Revue Égyptologique publiée sous la direction de MM. Vol. XIII, page 107, Paris

Old English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *wunnju.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /wynn/, [wyn]

Noun

wynn f

  1. joy, delight
  2. the runic character ᚹ
  3. the letter wynn: Ƿ, ƿ (/w/)

Usage notes

Mostly occurs in poetry. The normal prose words for "joy" were ġefēa and bliss.

Declension
Declension of wynn (strong ō-stem)
Case Singular Plural
nominative wynn wynna, wynne
accusative wynne wynna, wynne
genitive wynne wynna
dative wynne wynnum

Derived terms

Descendants
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