thumb|Wynn in the Hildebrandslied manuscript (830s): the text reads ƿiges ƿarne. thumb|Capital wynn appears twice in this 10th century inscription in Breamore: her sƿutelað seo gecƿydrædnes ðe (Here is manifested the Word to thee). Wynn or wyn (; also spelled wen, win, ƿynn, ƿyn, ƿen, and ƿin), is a letter of the Old English alphabet, where it is used to represent the sound . It was a continued use of the Anglo-Frisian Futhorc runes. Futhorc was the native alphabet of Old English before the Latin alphabet was adopted, and it was a sibling alphabet to the Younger Futhark alphabet that Old Norse
Key facts
- Grapheme.name
- Wynn
- Grapheme.letter
- Ƿ ƿ
- Grapheme.variations
- (See below)
- Grapheme.image
- File:Wynn.svg
- Grapheme.imagesize
- 100px
- Grapheme.imageclass
- skin-invert-image
- Grapheme.imagealt
- Writing cursive forms of Ƿ
- Grapheme.script
- Adapted from Futhorc into Latin script
- Grapheme.type
- Alphabet
- Grapheme.typedesc
- ic and logographic
- Grapheme.language
- Old English
- Grapheme.phonemes
- []
- Grapheme.unicode
- U+01F7, U+01BF
- Grapheme.fam1
- ᚹ
- Grapheme.usageperiod
- ~700 to ~1100
- Grapheme.children
- Ꝩ ꝩ
- Grapheme.sisters
- Ꝩ ꝩ
- Grapheme.equivalents
- w
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- History
- The letter "W"
- Meaning
- Unicode
- Computing codes
- References
- See also
thumb|Wynn in the Hildebrandslied manuscript (830s): the text reads ƿiges ƿarne. thumb|Capital wynn appears twice in this 10th century inscription in Breamore: her sƿutelað seo gecƿydrædnes ðe (Here is manifested the Word to thee). Wynn or wyn (; also spelled wen, win, ƿynn, ƿyn, ƿen, and ƿin), is a letter of the Old English alphabet, where it is used to represent the sound . It was a continued use of the Anglo-Frisian Futhorc runes. Futhorc was the native alphabet of Old English before the Latin alphabet was adopted, and it was a sibling alphabet to the Younger Futhark alphabet that Old Norse used. Both alphabets come from Elder Futhark.
== History == === The letter "W" === While the earliest Old English texts represent this phoneme with the digraph , scribes soon revived the rune wynn from Old English's native alphabet, Anglo-Frisian Futhorc, 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. In Middle English texts, it was sometimes replaced with or with a ligature form of , until it was replaced with the modern letter .