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Old English
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *hwīnaną.
Pronunciation
Verb
hwīnan
- to make a whistling or whizzing sound
- Widsith
Full oft of þām hēape hwīnende flēag ġiellende gār.- Very often from the band shrieking spears flew whistling.
- c. 996, Ælfric's Lives of Saints, "The Forty Soldiers, Martyrs"
Sē foresæġda mere wæs mid froste oferþeaht, and sē winterlīca wind hwān [handġewrit: ⟨wan⟩] mid þām froste.- The lake was frozen over with ice, and the winter wind howled with the frost.
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