wynn

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/wɪn/

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.

OriginMiddle English wynne ← Old English wynn ← Proto-West Germanic *wunnju →
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Meanings

wynn1

nounwynn (plural wynns)

plural wynns · alternative obsolete wen · alternative win

  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.

    The Norman scribes gradually replaced wynn by u, uu, vv, and w itself.

    1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 175

Wynn2

proper nounWynn (plural Wynns)

plural Wynns

  1. A surname from Welsh.
  2. A unisex given name.

Origin

wynn · noun

  1. Proto-Indo-European*wn̥h₁yeh₂
  2. Proto-Germanic*wunjō
  3. Proto-West Germanic*wunnju
  4. Old Englishwynn“joy, pleasure”
  5. Middle Englishwynne
  6. Englishwynn

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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Wynn · proper noun

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

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Translations

Bulgarian уин
  • уин (uin)letter of the Latin alphabet (Ƿ/ƿ)

Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with wynn

inbeenwithinmeninnwinbinskinminbeginpinbentwinsinberlinthinspinhereintinLynnvaccinefinviolindin
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Sounds the same

winwinnewhen (with both the wine–whine merger and pin–pen merger)
Cite this entry
APA

wynn. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wynn

MLA

“wynn.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wynn. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wynn,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wynn.

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