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Wynn is a letter in the old English alphabet that came from a rune (ᚹ) by the same name. It was used to represent the sound /w/.
In written Old English and Middle English it was borrowed to represent the same sound, as the letter W was a later invention. It gradually fell out of use as 'uu' (hence "double-U" for our modern "w") and later a merged form 'w' increased in use to represent the /w/ sound.
The rune was held to represent joy, and is the only rune other than þ to have been borrowed into the Latin alphabet.
Wynn in Unicode
- Latin Capital Letter Wynn - Ƿ - U+01F7
- Latin Small Letter Wynn - ƿ - U+01BF
- Runic Letter Wynn - ᚹ - U+16B9
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