While the earliest Old English texts represent this phoneme with the digraph ⟨uu⟩, scribes soon borrowed the runewynnᚹ 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.[2] In post-wynn texts it was sometimes replaced with ⟨u⟩ but often replaced with a ligature form of ⟨uu⟩, from which the modern letter ⟨w⟩ developed.
Meaning
The denotation of the rune is "joy, bliss" known from the Anglo-Saxon Rune Poems:[3]
ᚹǷenne brūceþ, þe can ƿēana lyt sāres and sorge and him sylfa hæf blǣd and blysse and eac byrga geniht.
— Lines 22–24 in The Anglo-Saxon Runic Poem
Who uses it knows no pain, sorrow nor anxiety, and he himself has prosperity and bliss, and also enough shelter
— Translation slightly modified from Dickins (1915)
Miscellaneous
It is not continued in the Younger Futhark, but in the Gothic alphabet the letter 𐍅w is called winja, allowing a Proto-Germanic reconstruction of the rune's name as *wunjô "joy".
It is one of the two runes (along with 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 /u/, /v/, and /w/.
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 ⟨w⟩.
Wynn in Unicode
Capital wynn (left), lowercase wynn (right)
The following wynn and wynn-related characters are in Unicode:[4]
wynn, this, article, about, letter, other, uses, disambiguation, this, article, needs, additional, citations, verification, please, help, improve, this, article, adding, citations, reliable, sources, unsourced, material, challenged, removed, find, sources, new. This article is about the letter For other uses see Wynn disambiguation This article needs additional citations for verification Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources Unsourced material may be challenged and removed Find sources Wynn news newspapers books scholar JSTOR April 2012 Learn how and when to remove this template message Wynn or wyn 1 Ƿ ƿ also spelled wen ƿynn and ƿen is a letter of the Old English alphabet where it is used to represent the sound w ǷǷ ƿ See below UsageWriting systemFuthorcTypeAlphabetic and LogographicLanguage of originOld English languagePhonetic usage w w ɪ n Unicode codepointU 01F7 U 01BFHistoryDevelopmentᚹǷ ƿTime period 700 to 1100DescendantsꝨ ꝩSistersNoneTransliteration equivalentswVariations See below OtherOther letters commonly used withwThis article contains phonetic transcriptions in the International Phonetic Alphabet IPA For an introductory guide on IPA symbols see Help IPA For the distinction between and see IPA Brackets and transcription delimiters This article contains runic characters Without proper rendering support you may see question marks boxes or other symbols instead of runes NameProto GermanicOld English WunjōWynn joy ShapeElder FutharkFuthorcUnicodeᚹ U 16B9TransliterationwTranscriptionwIPA w Position inrune row8Wynn in the Hildebrandslied manuscript 830s the text reads ƿiges ƿarne Capital wynn appears twice in this 10th century inscription in Breamore her sƿutelad seo gecƿydraednes de Contents 1 History 1 1 The letter W 1 2 Meaning 1 3 Miscellaneous 2 Wynn in Unicode 3 Computing codes 4 References 5 See alsoHistory EditThe letter W Edit While the earliest Old English texts represent this phoneme with the digraph uu scribes soon borrowed the rune wynn ᚹ 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 2 In post wynn texts it was sometimes replaced with u but often replaced with a ligature form of uu from which the modern letter w developed Meaning Edit The denotation of the rune is joy bliss known from the Anglo Saxon Rune Poems 3 ᚹ Ƿenne bruceth the can ƿeana lytsares and sorge and him sylfa haefblǣd and blysse and eac byrga geniht Lines 22 24 in The Anglo Saxon Runic Poem Who uses it knows no pain sorrow nor anxiety and he himself hasprosperity and bliss and also enough shelter Translation slightly modified from Dickins 1915 Miscellaneous Edit It is not continued in the Younger Futhark but in the Gothic alphabet the letter 𐍅 w is called winja allowing a Proto Germanic reconstruction of the rune s name as wunjo joy It is one of the two runes along with th 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 u v and w As with th 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 w Wynn in Unicode Edit Capital wynn left lowercase wynn right The following wynn and wynn related characters are in Unicode 4 U 01F7 Ƿ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER WYNN U 01BF ƿ LATIN LETTER WYNN U 16B9 ᚹ RUNIC LETTER WUNJO WYNN W U A768 Ꝩ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER VEND U A769 ꝩ LATIN SMALL LETTER VEND U A7D5 LATIN SMALL LETTER DOUBLE WYNN 5 Computing codes EditCharacter information Preview Ƿ ƿUnicode name LATIN CAPITAL LETTER WYNN LATIN SMALL LETTER WYNNEncodings decimal hex dec hexUnicode 503 U 01F7 447 U 01BFUTF 8 199 183 C7 B7 198 191 C6 BFNumeric character reference amp 503 wbr amp x1F7 wbr amp 447 wbr amp x1BF wbr References Edit wyn Oxford English Dictionary Online ed Oxford University Press Subscription or participating institution membership required Freeborn Dennis 1992 From Old English to Standard English London MacMillan p 25 ISBN 9780776604695 Dickins Bruce 1915 Runic and Heroic Poems of the Old Teutonic Peoples Cambridge Cambridge University Press p 14 15 UCD UnicodeData txt The Unicode Standard Retrieved 2022 11 22 Everson Michael West Andrew 2020 10 05 L2 20 268 Revised proposal to add ten characters for Middle English to the UCS PDF See also EditDigamma Eth Meldorf fibula Thorn letter Vend letter Yogh Ỽ Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Wynn amp oldid 1132293487, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
