wynn

See also: Wynn

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English winne, wenne, wunne, from Old English wynn (“joy, pleasure”), from Proto-Germanic *wunjō, from Proto-Indo-European *wn-yeH₂, from *wenh₁- (“desire, wish, love”).

Alternative forms

• uuyn, wen, ƿ

Pronunciation

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

Noun

Wynn

wynn (plural wynns)

1. 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.

See also

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

Etymology 2

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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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).

Noun

wynn m

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

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Old English

Alternative forms

• wyn
• ƿynn — wynn spelling

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *wunjō, from Proto-Indo-European *wenh₁- (“to strive for, wish, desire”). Cognate with Old Saxon wunnia, Old High German wunna (German Wonne). Related to Old English wine (“friend”), wenian (“to accustom, wean”). The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin Venus, Old Irish fine, Welsh gwen) and Albanian uri (“hunger, desire”) (archaic Albanian uni).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wynn/, [wyn]

Noun

wynn f

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

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

Descendants

• Middle English: wunne, winne
  • English: winne