wynn
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 10
- Words With Friends
- 11
- Letters
- 4
Definition of wynn
3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
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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.”
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noun
-
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.”
name
- A surname from Welsh.
- A unisex given name.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
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”).
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