Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An Old English rune having the sound (w) and used in Old English and early Middle English writing.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A kind of timber truck or carriage.
Wiktionary
- n. a letter of the Old English alphabet, 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.
- n. A kind of timber truck, or carriage.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A kind of timber truck, or carriage.
Etymologies
- Old English ƿynn ("joy, pleasure"), from Common Germanic *wunjō, from Proto-Indo-European *wn-yeH₂, derived from *wen- ("desire"). (Wiktionary)
- Old English; see wen-1 in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
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