wynnn.¹

Brit.

/wɪn/, U.S.

/wɪn/

Forms: Also wyn, formerly wen /wɛn/.

Etymology: < Old English 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.

ΘΠ

society > communication > writing > written character > name of written character > [noun] > runic or Old English or Middle English

asha1000

thornc1000

wynnc1300

thorn-letter1902

α.

c1300 McClean MS. in Mod. Lang. Rev. (1911) VI. 442 Wen . Ƿ. Ƿimman . Ƿepman . Ƿonie.

1705 Wanley Antiq. Lit. Septentr. Pref. †b 2 Quod a Runicis Thorn and Wen clauditur.

1758 Wise Some Enq. Europe 145 Ð þ, Th or Thorn, and Ƿ ƿ, W or Wen, are of Northern growth.

1884 E. Einenkel in Life St. Katherine Notes 125 The scribe took the wên of his original for a þorn.

1907 J. E. Wells Owl & Nightingale 3 In a number of places thorn is dotted, and so is like wen.

β. 1892 S. A. Brooke Hist. Early Eng. Lit. II. xxiii. 201 W. was sometimes taken to mean Wyn, joy, and sometimes Wen, hope.1910 F. 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.] 1912 A. J. Wyatt Old Eng. Riddles p. xxxix The commoner Anglian runes..ƿ w wynn (joy).1955 Jrnl. Eng. & Germanic Philol. 54 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.1965 C. Barber Flux of Lang. vii. 129 The runic symbol ‘wynn’ was used for the Old English w sound.1978 Norfolk Archaeol. XXXVII. 56 G offers one or two forms hardly explicable except as corruptions of original spellings with wynn for w.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

wynnn.²

Brit.

/wɪn/, U.S.

/wɪn/

(See quot.)

ΘΠ

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > [noun] > low

trundle1664

truckle1689

truckle-car1748

gambo1836

wynn1863

1863 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Suppl. Wynn, a kind of timber truck or carriage.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2823/2 Wynd, a truck or low carriage.]

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	wynn
释义	wynnn.¹ Brit. /wɪn/, U.S. /wɪn/ Forms: Also wyn, formerly wen /wɛn/. Etymology: < Old English 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. ΘΠ society > communication > writing > written character > name of written character > [noun] > runic or Old English or Middle English asha1000 thornc1000 wynnc1300 thorn-letter1902 α. c1300 McClean MS. in Mod. Lang. Rev. (1911) VI. 442 Wen . Ƿ. Ƿimman . Ƿepman . Ƿonie. 1705 Wanley Antiq. Lit. Septentr. Pref. †b 2 Quod a Runicis Thorn and Wen clauditur. 1758 Wise Some Enq. Europe 145 Ð þ, Th or Thorn, and Ƿ ƿ, W or Wen, are of Northern growth. 1884 E. Einenkel in Life St. Katherine Notes 125 The scribe took the wên of his original for a þorn. 1907 J. E. Wells Owl & Nightingale 3 In a number of places thorn is dotted, and so is like wen. β. 1892 S. A. Brooke Hist. Early Eng. Lit. II. xxiii. 201 W. was sometimes taken to mean Wyn, joy, and sometimes Wen, hope.1910 F. 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.] 1912 A. J. Wyatt Old Eng. Riddles p. xxxix The commoner Anglian runes..ƿ w wynn (joy).1955 Jrnl. Eng. & Germanic Philol. 54 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.1965 C. Barber Flux of Lang. vii. 129 The runic symbol ‘wynn’ was used for the Old English w sound.1978 Norfolk Archaeol. XXXVII. 56 G offers one or two forms hardly explicable except as corruptions of original spellings with wynn for w. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2022). wynnn.² Brit. /wɪn/, U.S. /wɪn/ (See quot.) ΘΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > cart, carriage, or wagon > [noun] > low trundle1664 truckle1689 truckle-car1748 gambo1836 wynn1863 1863 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Suppl. Wynn, a kind of timber truck or carriage. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2823/2 Wynd, a truck or low carriage.] This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1928; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.¹c1300n.²1863
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