wynn

Meaning

Noun

• 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.
• A kind of timber truck, or carriage.

Origin

• From Middle English wynne, winne, wenne, wunne, from Old English wynn, from Proto-West Germanic *wunnju, from Proto-Germanic *wunjō, from Proto-Indo-European *wn̥h₁yeh₂, from *wenh₁-.