wynn

• wen (obsolete)
• win

From Middle English wynne, winne, wenne, wunne, wyn, from Old English wynn (“joy, pleasure”), from Proto-West Germanic *wunnju, from Proto-Germanic *wunjō, from Proto-Indo-European *wn̥h₁yeh₂, from *wenh₁- (“desire, wish, love”).

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

Wynn

wynn (plural wynns)

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.

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

A metathesized borrowing from the Imperial Aramaic gentilic plural 𐡉𐡅𐡍𐡉𐡍 (ywnyn /⁠*yawnāyīn⁠/, “Greeks”), ultimately derived from Ancient Greek Ἰᾱ́ϝων (Iā́wōn, “Ionian”). Compare Jewish Literary Aramaic יַוְנָאִין (yawnāʾīn, “Greeks”).

• IPA^(key): */wa(j).jaˈniːn/

⁠⁠⁠⁠ m

1. Greek (person)

• Akhmimic Coptic: ⲟⲩⲁⲉⲓⲁⲛⲓⲛ (ouaeianin)
• Bohairic Coptic: ⲟⲩⲉⲓⲛⲓⲛ (oueinin)
• Sahidic Coptic: ⲟⲩⲁⲓⲛⲓⲛ (ouainin)

• 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

• wyn

From Proto-West Germanic *wunnju.

• IPA^(key): /wynn/, [wyn]

wynn f

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

Mostly occurs in poetry. The normal prose words for "joy" were ġefēa and bliss.

• wynfæst
• wynsum
• wynlīċ
• wynfull

• wenian
• wine

• Middle English: wynne, wunne, winne
  • English: wynn, wen, winne, win
  • Scots: win