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

• wen (obsolete)

Pronunciation

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

Noun

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

• eth / edh / eð / ð
• thorn / þorn / þ

Etymology 2

Noun

wynn (plural wynns)

1. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Demotic

Etymology

A metathesized borrowing from the Imperial Aramaic gentilic plural 𐡉𐡅𐡍𐡉𐡍‎ (ywnyn /⁠*yawnāyīn⁠/, “Greeks”), ultimately derived from Ancient Greek Ἰᾱ́ϝων (Iā́wōn, “Ionian”). Compare Jewish Literary Aramaic יַוְנָאִין‎ (yawnāʾīn, “Greeks”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): */wa(j).jaˈniːn/

Noun

⁠⁠⁠⁠ m

1. Greek (person)

Descendants

• Akhmimic Coptic: ⲟⲩⲁⲉⲓⲁⲛⲓⲛ (ouaeianin)
• Bohairic Coptic: ⲟⲩⲉⲓⲛⲓⲛ (oueinin)
• Sahidic Coptic: ⲟⲩⲁⲓⲛⲓⲛ (ouainin)

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

• wyn

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

• wynfæst
• wynsum
• wynlīċ
• wynfull

Related terms

• wenian
• wine

Descendants

• Middle English: wynne, wunne, winne
  • English: wynn, wen, winne, win
  • Scots: win