different between wynn vs wyns

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

Noun

wyns

1. plural of wyn