different between carriage vs wynn

English

Etymology

From Middle English cariage, from Old Northern French cariage, from carier (“to carry”).

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?kæ??d?/, /?k???d?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kæ??d?/
• (Mary–marry–merry distinction)
• (Mary–marry–merry merger)
• Rhymes: -æ??d?
• Hyphenation: car?riage

Noun

carriage (countable and uncountable, plural carriages)

1. The act of conveying; carrying.
2. Means of conveyance.
3. A wheeled vehicle, generally drawn by horse power.

   The carriage ride was very romantic.

4. (Britain) A rail car, especially one designed for the conveyance of passengers.
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:carriage.
5. (now rare) A manner of walking and moving in general; how one carries oneself, bearing, gait.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.i:

     His carriage was full comely and vpright, / His countenaunce demure and temperate [...].

   • 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, "Characters," [1]

     In spite of her erect carriage she could flop to her knees to pray as smart as any of us.

   • 2010, Christopher Hitchens, Hitch-22, Atlantic 2011, p. 90:

     He chose to speak largely about Vietnam [...], and his wonderfully sonorous voice was as enthralling to me as his very striking carriage and appearance.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:carriage.
6. (archaic) One's behaviour, or way of conducting oneself towards others.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 407:

     He now assumed a carriage to me so very different from what he had lately worn, and so nearly resembling his behaviour the first week of our marriage, that […] he might, possibly, have rekindled my fondness for him.

   • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, I:

     Some people whisper but no doubt they lie, / For malice still imputes some private end, / That Inez had, ere Don Alfonso's marriage, / Forgot with him her very prudent carriage [...].

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:carriage.
7. The part of a typewriter supporting the paper.
8. (US, New England) A shopping cart.
9. (Britain) A stroller; a baby carriage.
10. The charge made for conveying (especially in the phrases carriage forward, when the charge is to be paid by the receiver, and carriage paid).

    Synonyms: freight, freightage, cartage, charge, rate

11. (archaic) That which is carried, baggage

    • And David left his carriage in the hand of the keeper of the carriage, and ran into the army, and came and saluted his brethren.

    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:carriage.

Hyponyms

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• carriage on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Appendix:Carriages

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English wynne, winne, wenne, wunne, from Old English wynn (“joy, pleasure”), from Proto-West Germanic *wunnju, from Proto-Germanic *wunj?, from Proto-Indo-European *wn?h?yeh?, from *wenh?- (“desire, wish, love”).

Alternative forms

• uuyn, wen, ?, ?ynn

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w?n/
• Rhymes: -?n
• Homophones: win, Nguyen

Noun

wynn (plural wynns)

1. A letter of the Old English alphabet, 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.

See also

• eth / edh / eð / ð
• thorn / þorn / þ

Etymology 2

Noun

wynn (plural wynns)

1. A kind of timber truck, or carriage.

Demotic

Etymology

A metathesized borrowing from the plural Aramaic ????????????????????? (*Yawnay?n), itself from Ancient Greek ?????? (I??w?n, “Ionian”) — compare the later Ancient Greek ?????? (I???n), ??? (Í?n).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w?j?ni?n/

Noun

???? m

1. Greek (person)

Descendants

• Coptic: ??????? (oueinin) (Bohairic)

References

• Erichsen, Wolja (1954) Demotisches Glossar, Copenhagen: Ejnar Munksgaard, page 80
• ?erný, Jaroslav (1976) Coptic Etymological Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ?ISBN, page 213
• Brugsch, F. Chabas and Eug. Revillout (1911) Revue Égyptologique publiée sous la direction de MM. Vol. XIII, page 107, Paris

Old English

Alternative forms

• wyn

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *wunnju.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wynn/, [wyn]

Noun

wynn f

1. joy, delight
2. the runic character ?
3. the letter wynn: ?, ? (/w/)

Declension

Related terms

• wenian
• wine

Derived terms

• wynfæst
• wynsum
• wynl??
• wynfull

Descendants

• Middle English: wynne, wunne, winne
  • English: wynn, wen, winne, win
  • Scots: win