Wynn
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wynn¹
- /wɪn/
Sounds like win, winne, when (with both the wine–whine merger and pin–pen merger) · Rhymes with -ɪn
Where it comes from
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”).
noun wynns · wen · win
- 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. The Norman scribes gradually replaced wynn by u, uu, vv, and w itself.
Wynn²
Where it comes from
From the Welsh surname, from the name Gwyn. Also spelled as Wynne. Doublet of Gwynne.
proper noun Wynns
- A surname from Welsh.
- A unisex given name.
