wynn

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.

词形变化

wynns plural wen alternative,obsolete win alternative

词源

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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