| 释义 |
▪ I. wyn, wynn|wɪn|
Formerly also wen |wɛn|.
[a. OE. wyn (also wen) win n.2]
The name of the Old English runic letter ᚹ (= w) and of the manuscript form of this (Ƿ ƿ) in Old and early Middle English.
αc1300McClean MS. in Mod. Lang. Rev. (1911) VI. 442 Wen . Ƿ. Ƿimman . Ƿepman . Ƿonie. 1705Wanley Antiq. Lit. Septentr. Pref. † b 2, Quod a Runicis Thorn and Wen clauditur. 1758Wise Some Enq. Europe 145 Ð þ, Th or Thorn, and Ƿ ƿ, W or Wen, are of Northern growth. 1884E. Einenkel Life St. Kath. 125 The scribe took the wên of his original for a þorn. 1907J. E. Wells Owl & Nightingale 3 In a number of places thorn is dotted, and so is like wen.
β [1892S. A. Brooke Hist. Early Eng. Lit. II. xxiii. 201 W. was sometimes taken to mean Wyn, joy, and sometimes Wen, hope. 1910F. Tupper Riddles of Exeter Bk. 234 W always demands the interpretation Wyn, a rendering of the rune sustained by the Anglo Saxon alphabet in the Salzburg MS.] 1912A. J. Wyatt Old Eng. Riddles p. xxxix, The commoner Anglian runes..ƿ w wynn (joy). 1955Jrnl. Eng. & Gmc. Philol. LIV. 6 In later Old English fuþorcs, wyn and wen are generally confused, owing to some extent..to the semantic link existing between the two words, although the name of the W-rune was unquestionably wyn. 1965C. Barber Flux of Lang. vii. 129 The runic symbol ‘wynn’ was used for the Old English w sound. 1978Norfolk Archaeol. XXXVII. 56, G offers one or two forms hardly explicable except as corruptions of original spellings with wynn for w.
▪ II. wyn
obs. f. ween v., win v. |