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Wynn
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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
Grapheme.usageperiod
~700 to ~1100
Grapheme.children
Ꝩ ꝩ
Grapheme.sisters
Ꝩ ꝩ
Grapheme.equivalents
w

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Article · Español

Wynn o *wunjō (nombres en anglosajón y protogermánico respectivamente) son los nombres de una runa que terminaría convirtiéndose en una letra del alfabeto del inglés medio, (Ƿ ƿ) (escrito wynn o wen). En ambos casos se usaba para representar el sonido /w/.

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