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    Wynn (redirect from Ƿ)
    or wyn (Ƿ ƿ; also spelled wen, win, ƿynn, ƿen, and ƿin) is a letter of the Old English alphabet, where it is used to represent the sound /w/. While the...
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    arrange the non-standard Old English letters (Harley has Ƿ–ЖƖÞ, Stowe has Ƿ–ЖÞ, Titus has Ƿ–Þ–Ð), but all three manuscripts place them after the standard...
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  • English letter Wynn of the Runic alphabet (ᚹ) and later the Latin alphabet (Ƿ ƿ), except that the bowl was open on the top, not being connected to the stem...
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    oe and e now. Ƿ ƿ wyn, ƿen (Kentish) or wynn /ˈwɪn/, used for the consonant /w/. (The letter 'w' had not yet been invented.) Replaced by w now. Ȝ ȝ yogh...
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    letter losing its ascender (becoming similar in appearance to the old wynn (⟨Ƿ⟩, ⟨ƿ⟩), which had fallen out of use by 1300, and to ancient through modern ⟨P⟩...
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  • (surname 文) Wen (surname 溫) Wen (surname 闻) Wen, alternate spelling for Wynn (Ƿ ƿ), a letter of the Old English alphabet Wen, common name for trichilemmal...
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    the letters W and U. W was occasionally rendered VV (later UU), but the runic character wynn (Ƿ or ƿ) was a common way of writing the /w/ sound. Again...
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  • made such as the removal of certain letters, such as thorn ⟨Þ þ⟩, wynn ⟨Ƿ ƿ⟩, and eth ⟨Ð ð⟩. A letter can have multiple variants, or allographs, related...
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    (redirect from Early Welsh w)
    lower-case letter is U+1EFD. It is related to the Anglo-Saxon letter wynn, Ƿ. "NLW MS. Peniarth 19". 2007–2014. MS. 19. Retrieved 20 August 2014. Everson...
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    Old English, where the /w/ sound soon came to be represented by borrowing the rune ⟨ᚹ⟩, adapted as the Latin letter wynn: ⟨ƿ⟩. In early Middle English...
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