# wynn

Pronunciation: US say "WIN" /wɪn/; UK

## Noun

1. A letter of the Old English alphabet, ƿ, borrowed from the runic futhark to spell the sound of w; in Middle English it gave way to the digraph uu, which later became the letter w.
   - Simple: An old English letter, ƿ, that stood for the 'w' sound before the letter w existed.
   - _Editors of the poem silently replaced every wynn with a modern w._
   - _The scribe drew a wynn that closely resembled the letter p, confusing later readers._

## Origin

From Middle English wynne, from Old English wynn ("joy, pleasure"), the name of a rune formed from a word beginning with its sound. It goes back to Proto-West Germanic *wunnju and Proto-Germanic *wunjō, from the Proto-Indo-European root *wenh₁- ("desire, wish, love").

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