different between winsome vs wynn

English

Etymology

From Middle English wynsom, winsom, winsome, winsum, wunsum (“beautiful; agreeable, gracious, pleasant; generous; of situations: favourable, propitious”), from Old English wynsum (“joyful, merry, pleasant; winsome”), from Proto-West Germanic *wunnjusam (“joyful”); synchronically analyzable as winne (“delight, joy, pleasure”) +? -some.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?w?n.s(?)m/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?w?n.s?m/
• Hyphenation: win?some

Adjective

winsome (comparative winsomer, superlative winsomest)

1. Charming, engaging, winning; inspiring approval and trust, especially if in an innocent manner.
   • 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, chapter IX:

     […] lifting her winsome eyes to my face with that sort of look which turns off bad temper, even when one has all the right in the world to indulge it.

Related terms

• winly
• winne
• winsomely
• winsomeness

Translations

Further reading

• winsome (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Owenism

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