name
Meaning 1
A surname from Welsh.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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Standard Lemma guide
wynn
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/wɪn/
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rhymes with -ɪn
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homophone: win
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homophone: winne
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homophone: when (with both the wine–whine merger and pin–pen merger)
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CMU ARPABET: W IH1 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
name
Meaning 2
A unisex given name.
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noun
Meaning 3
A letter of the Old English alphabet, ƿ, 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.
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History
Etymology
From the Welsh surname, from the name Gwyn. Also spelled as Wynne. Doublet of Gwynne.
From Middle English wynne, winne, wenne, wunne, wyn, from Old English wynn (“joy, pleasure”) (runes were named using words beginning with their sound), from Proto-West Germanic *wunnju, from Proto-Germanic *wunjō, from Proto-Indo-European *wn̥h1yeh2, from *wenh1- (“desire, wish, love”).
Across languages
Translations
1 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: уин (uin) — letter of the Latin alphabet (Ƿ/ƿ)