different between wynn vs wynd

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English wynde, probably from wynden (“to wind, proceed, go”). Compare also Old English ?ewind; Old Norse venda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wa?nd/

Noun

wynd (plural wynds)

1. (chiefly Scotland) A narrow lane, alley or path, especially one between houses.
   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, Archibald Constable and Company:

     Fortune favoured us, and we got home without meeting a soul. Once we saw a man, who seemed not quite sober, passing along a street in front of us; but we hid in a door till he had disappeared up an opening such as there are here, steep little closes, or wynds, as they call them in Scotland.

   • 1999, George RR Martin, A Clash of Kings, Bantam 2011, p. 637:

     He flew through the moonlight streets, clattering over cobbles, darting down narrow alleys and up twisty wynds, racing to his love.

   • 2010, Tom Dyckhoff, The Guardian, 10 Jul 2010:

     Stirling's called an Edinburgh mini-me: the same winding wynds, the same historic core, castle, looming romantic hills. Only a lot cheaper.

2. (Ireland, dated) A stack of hay.

Synonyms

• (narrow lane): See Thesaurus:alley
• (stack of hay): hayrick, haystack

Anagrams

• W.D.N.Y.

Scots

Etymology

From Middle English wynde, probably from wynden (“to wind, proceed, go”). Compare also Old English ?ewind; Old Norse venda.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /w?ind/

Noun

wynd (plural wynds)

1. alley, lane, wynd

Vilamovian

Pronunciation

Noun

wynd m

1. wind