wynn

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English

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Etymology

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).

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Noun

Wynn
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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.

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Demotic

Etymology

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).

Pronunciation

Noun

T14-N25n-2n-2yw m

  1. Greek (person)

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References

  • 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

Old English

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Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *wunnju.

Pronunciation

Noun

wynn f

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

Usage notes

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

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