Etymology

wynn

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Today it means: 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. Full definition →

Middle English wynne ← Old English wynn ← Proto-West Germanic *wunnju
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wynn · noun1

  1. Proto-Indo-European · derived from*wn̥h₁yeh₂
  2. Proto-Germanic · inherited from*wunjō
  3. Proto-West Germanic · inherited from*wunnju
  4. Old English · inherited fromwynn“joy, pleasure”
  5. Middle English · inherited fromwynne
  6. English todaywynn

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”).

Wynn · proper noun2

From the Welsh surname, from the name Gwyn. Also spelled as Wynne. Doublet of Gwynne.

Words from the same roots

Middle Englishwynne all →

win

Old Englishwynn all →

winwenWenhamwinne

Proto-West Germanic*wunnju all →

winwinne

Proto-Germanic*wunjō all →

winwinne

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