Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA 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.
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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- Inherited-form mentionwynneenm
- Inherited-form mentionwynnang · joy, pleasure
- Inherited-form mention*wunnjugmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*wunjōgem-pro
- Derivation mention*wn̥h₁yeh₂ine-pro
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