Also known as 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
- U+01F7, U+01BF
- Grapheme.fam1
- ᚹ
- Grapheme.usageperiod
- ~700 to ~1100
- Grapheme.children
- Ꝩ ꝩ
- Grapheme.sisters
- Ꝩ ꝩ
- Grapheme.equivalents
- w
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Part of
- Latin script
- Based on
- Wunjô
- Image
- Wynn.svg
Show 2 more facts
- Unicode character
- ƿ
- Commons category
- Wynn
Sources (2)
via Wikidata · CC0
Article · 中文
Ƿ, ƿ（ƿen 或 wynn）是古英语的一个字母，用来代表 /w/ 音。 此字母原本来自如尼字母 ᚹ (U+16B9)。它和 þ 一同由如尼字母借到英语字母（或其他拉丁字母）。一个修改版本的字母 ƿynn ，称为 ，主要用在古诺尔斯语来代表 /u/, /v/，和 /w/ 音。 小写字母 ƿ 自 Unicode 1.0 版被收录，而大写字母 Ƿ 则在 Unicode 3.0 版被收录。
Abstract from DBpedia / Wikipedia · CC BY-SA