Wynn
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Wynn or wyn<ref>Template:OED</ref> ({{#invoke:Lang|lang}}; also spelled wen, win, ƿynn, ƿyn, ƿen, and ƿin) is a letter of the Old English alphabet, where it is used to represent the sound {{#invoke:IPA|main}}.
HistoryEdit
The letter "W"Edit
While the earliest Old English texts represent this phoneme with the digraph Template:Angle bracket, scribes soon borrowed the rune wynn Template:Runic for this purpose. It remained a standard letter throughout the Anglo-Saxon era, eventually falling out of use during the Middle English period, circa 1300.<ref> Template:Cite book</ref> In post-wynn texts, it was sometimes replaced with Template:Angle bracket but often replaced with a ligature form of Template:Angle bracket, which the modern letter Template:Angle bracket developed from.
MeaningEdit
The denotation of the rune is "joy, bliss", known from the Anglo-Saxon rune poems:<ref> Template:Cite book</ref>
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Who uses it knows no pain,
sorrow nor anxiety, and he himself has
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MiscellaneousEdit
It is not continued in the Younger Futhark, but in the Gothic alphabet, the letter Template:Script w is called Template:Transliteration, allowing a Proto-Germanic reconstruction of the rune's name as *wunjô "joy".
It is one of the two runes (along with thorn, þ) to have been borrowed into the English alphabet (or any extension of the Latin alphabet). A modified version of the letter wynn called vend was used briefly in Old Norse for the sounds {{#invoke:IPA|main}}, {{#invoke:IPA|main}}, and {{#invoke:IPA|main}}.
The rune may have been an original innovation, or it may have been adapted from the classical Latin alphabet's P,<ref>Template:Citation.</ref> or Q,Template:Citation needed or from the Rhaetic's alphabet's W.<ref>Template:Citation.</ref> As with þ, the letter wynn was revived in modern times for the printing of Old English texts, but since the early 20th century, the usual practice has been to substitute the modern Template:Angle bracket.
UnicodeEdit
The following wynn and wynn-related characters are in Unicode:<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
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Computing codesEdit
ReferencesEdit
See alsoEdit
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