Wynn
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
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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